Jackie McLean – Destination… Out! (1964/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time – 35:02 minutes | 1,38 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Source: HDTracks | © Blue Note Records
Recorded on September 20, 1963 at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
Recorded on September 20, 1963, Destination… Out! is one of saxophonist Jackie McLean’s best album, full of complexity that demonstrates the his ability as a writer, arranger, and instrumentalist.
Together with its predecessor, One Step Beyond, this 1963 session is considered one of Jackie McLean’s best, to a great extent due to the stellar quintet members joining him. Trombonist Grachan Moncur III and vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson both played on One Step Beyond, their musical chemistry with McLean so strong he invited them back for this album. The quintet is rounded out by Larry Ridley on bass and drummer Roy Haynes. Moncur III also contributes three out of the four songs here while McLean wrote the fourth, Kahlil The Prophet.
Like Eric Dolphy before him, Jackie McLean sought to create a kind of vanguard “chamber jazz” that still had the blues feel and — occasionally — the groove of hard bop, though with rounded, moodier edges. Destination Out! was the album on which he found it. Still working with Grachan Moncur III and Bobby Hutcherson — his direct spiritual connection to Dolphy — McLean changed his rhythm section by employing drummer Roy Haynes and bassist Larry Ridley. This combination proved a perfect balance of the four elements. The program is four tunes, three of which were written by Moncur. If there was a perfect Blue Note session after John Coltrane’s Blue Train, this was it. Opening with a ballad was a novel idea in 1966, but McLean uses Moncur’s love and hate to reveal all the tonal possibilities within this group of musicians, and the textural interplay that exists in the heightened sense of form, time breaks, and rhythm changes. As begun on One Step Beyond, the notion of interval is key in this band, and an elemental part of Moncur’s composition. The horn lines are spare, haunting, warm, and treated as textural elements by Hutcherson’s vibes. On the tune “Esoteric,” Hutcherson and Haynes throw complex rhythmic figures into the mix. Moncur’s writing is angular, resembling Ornette’s early-’60s melodic notions more than Coltrane’s modal considerations. Hutcherson’s solo amid the complex, knotty melodic frame is just sublime. “Khalil the Prophet” is McLean’s only contribution compositionally to the album, but it’s a fine one. Using a hard bop lyric and a shape-shifting sense of harmonic interplay between the three front-line players, McLean moves deeply into a blues groove without giving into mere 4/4 time structures. The architecture of his solo is wonderfully obtuse, playing an alternating series of eighths, 12ths, and even 16ths against Hutcherson’s wide-open comping and arpeggio runs. The set ends with Moncur’s “Riff Raff,” a strolling blues that makes full use of counterpoint on the vibes. Moncur sets his solo against McLean’s melodic engagement of Hutcherson, forcing both men into opposition positions that get resolved in a sultry, funky, shimmering blues groove. Of all of McLean’s Blue Note dates, so many of which are classic jazz recordings, Destination Out! stands as the one that reveals the true soulfulness and complexity of his writing, arranging, and “singing” voice. –Thom Jurek
Tracklist:
1 Love And Hate 8:25
2 Esoteric 9:02
3 Kahlil The Prophet 10:23
4 Riff Raff 7:07
Personnel:
Jackie McLean, alto saxophone
Grachan Moncur III, trombone
Bobby Hutcherson, vibes
Larry Ridley, bass
Roy Haynes, drums
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