Born in New York City, New York on May 17, 1931, jazz saxophonist Jackie McLean
was destined to be a jazz great right from the beginning. His father was a jazz
guitarist and a great influence but died in 1939 when Jackie McLean was young.
His education in music came via some of the finest musicians in the genre,
including Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, and Charlie Parker. His accomplished sax
playing blossomed at high school, where he was in a band with Sonny Rollins and
Kenny Drew. Jackie McLean would then go on to play on Miles Davis' Dig album
when he was just 20. At a young age...