Jackie McLean Lights Out 200g #D Ltd Ed Analogue Productions Mono LP (Sealed)

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Serial #525

Numbered, Limited Edition 200 Gram LP! Only the 1st 1,000 Copies are Numbered! Pressed at Quality Record Pressings!
Mastered by Kevin Gray & Cut from the Original Mono 100% Analog Master Tapes!

  A perpetual favorite among Jackie McLean's earlier recordings, Lights Out finds  the hard-swinging young alto saxophonist in 1956 still very much under the wing  of Charlie Parker, who had died less than a year earlier. Yet McLean was  beginning to find ways out of the seductive artistic security of Bird  imitations. For one thing, he was experimenting with tonal variations. For  another, he was working with Charles Mingus, and Mingus's genius as a leader  included forcing musicians to look deeply into their most cherished stylistic  practices.

The McLean of Lights Out is the hot young bebopper with a slightly acid edge to  his sound and a solid blues foundation under everything he played. McLean and  trumpeter Donald Byrd occasionally engage in the "pecking" technique of mutual  improvisation they developed as members of the George Wallington Quintet.

"During his avant-garde period in the early 60s McLean dismissed his earlier recordings, but whatever impossible standards he was setting for himself, his playing on them still sounds fresh, creative, and inspired... The only way McLean's bright, biting sound was ever heard to better advantage was live." - Duck Baker, The Absolute Sound, April 2013, 3.5 Music, 5/5 Sonics

Features:
• 200g Vinyl LP
• Numbered, Limited Edition, Less Than 1000 Records per stamper, released in limited quantities
• Only the 1st 1,000 Copies are Numbered!
• The Original 100% Analog Master Tapes were used working with only the Best Mastering Studios!
• Mastered by Kevin Gray & Plated by Gary Salstrom
• Plated and Pressed at Quality Record Pressings on Virgin Vinyl
• Meticulous Test Pressing Evaluation and Quality Control
• Deluxe Packaging using the highest quality jackets and rice paper inner sleeves
• Officially Licensed & Authorized for release by the Record Label
• Mono
 
Musicians:
Jackie McLean, alto sax
Donald Byrd, trumpet
Elmo Hope, piano
Doug Watkins, bass
Arthur Taylor, drums

Selections:
1. Lights Out
2. Up
3. Lorraine
4. A Foggy Day
5. Kerplunk
6. Inding