Jackie McLean - Destination...Out!The innovative hard bop of Jackie McLean began to evolve and take on a harder edge as the early 1960s progressed. Inspired by Ornette Coleman, the alto saxophonist began to venture gradually into the realm of the avant garde, but on his own terms, never fully relinquishing a grounding in a soulful sense swing and chordal structures. With his 1963 album Destination Out! he created a masterpiece of inside out jazz with a unique quintet featuring Grachan

a truculent social commentary that bludgeons and provokes

and fading in and out of an architectural silence

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“It’s the first time we’ve ever made an album like that

the download only 'Your Turn To Drive' making its debut on CD and the stunning 2001 re-recording of the 1971 outtake 'Shadow Man'

pairing repetitive

‰۝ a wounded ‰ÛÓ personally wounded

In the words of fellow Chicagoans

Horse Lords

Recorded at Dick James Studios in Central London between late 1967 and Spring 1968

The band considers it both a mission statement & a battle cry: “We are musicians

The dazzling display of album cover artwork alone should clue you into the changes