trbngr86 (October 14, 2008 at 1:30 am)

WOTWEET You obviously don't know much about jazz historically. For starters, that is his trademark sound. Very edgy.. and very sharp. Now why would he want to do that you ask? For starters it helped set him apart from other players. He wasn't a big band player, and in those days, you could play however you wanted as long as you were that good. He wasn't tone deaf, he knew he was playing sharp. MANY of the jazz greats did not play with intonation in mind.

MrGreatworks (September 26, 2008 at 8:37 am)

Beautiful Trumpet section.love it.

ghostofdolphy (September 19, 2008 at 1:41 am)

Go Jackie GO!

WOTWEET (September 14, 2008 at 2:25 pm)

Curious. I wonder if this guy is tone deaf? That's at least 25 cents sharp all the way through. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard to a person with normal hearing. His own "characteristic sound" is to play consistently out of tune LMAO

Modes9 (August 30, 2008 at 8:10 pm)

This is where Kenny Garrett got it!

K1000oner (July 3, 2008 at 12:48 pm)

That's great, thank you!!!!!!

anthonyddean (March 19, 2008 at 12:12 am)

Thanks for everything Mr. John Lenwood McLean!!!!!

utzatp (February 26, 2008 at 4:29 pm)

R.I.P BIG MCLEAN!!!!thanks sukapura and kin regardsfrom Florence (Italy)Carlo

aselmerius (January 9, 2008 at 9:40 pm)

Thank you again sukapura for this wondeful clip!Great!!!

kingpleasure (January 9, 2008 at 10:36 am)

Correction to 2 mistakes I made. Appointment in Ghana was done at a different concert with Woody Shaw on trumpet, but video is here on YouTube too. It's one of the other great compostions from Jackie's Bag, which was recorded in '59 & '60. So this was 30 years later, not 20 as I wrote. Bad head for numbers.