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Jackie McLean was an American jazz alto saxophonist and also an educator. His personal style included short phrases or irregular length.
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Born in New York City in 1931, Jackie McLean was an American jazz alto saxophonist. As a teen he recorded with Miles Davis, playing "Dig," which became his theme song, then a jazz standard. His personal style included short phrases or irregular length. His impressive solos hit the rafters. He founded the African American music department at the Hartt School in 1980, serving as its first director.
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View groupSaxophonists have been an integral part of the American jazz scene, with the timbres of their chosen instrument often at the center of layered compositions. Coleman Hawkins was the first American jazz saxophonist to become famous during the 1920s-30s. Jimmy Dorsey and Johnny Hodges also had major success with big bands during jazz's heyday as a popular music juggernaut, while Lester Young popularized the West Coast, cool style. Later, soprano and tenor saxophonist John Coltrane created pioneering works that ranged from "sheets of sound" bebop to unbound, rhythmically complex free jazz. And Branford Marsalis has taken his sax to great heights in non-jazz arenas; he's toured with rock artist Sting and served as musical director for The Tonight Show.
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