Been loving Jackie since 1960 when I was a senior in H.S. For me he's the greatest.❤❤❤

Peace be upon my godfather Jackie McLean who took jazz music to a whole another level facts only on that I miss you beloved and of course your best friend as well my father .one thing is for certain there will never ever be another Jackie McLean my godfather facts only 💯 again on that.yea

He is a giant. In Hartford, McClean and his wife created the Artist Collective, which trained thousands of children, including many of my friends in the Arts...

Not only one of the greatest altoplayer, but also an educater and a burning soul for the music he represent.

I love Jackie - to me he's "the sound of jazz" - that edge and that fire. Jackie would have made a great boxer, too - he's got the timing, the heart and that take no prisoners attitude - his jazz is sophisticated yet it's totally out of the blues and streetwise. I saw him perform in 1965 in Boston and he was totally stoned out of his mind, eyes half open, but he played incredible - he never lost his fire, even at the end of his life. When he cleaned up his act and went into "higher" education I was blown away - I thought he was heading towards being another drug casualty, but he pulled it together and became an inspiration to his students. Love his playing, and I love the man. His recorded legacy is pure gold - timeless.

The king of hardbop with punching tracks like climax, consequences, Jackknife. The king of cool with toyland, on the nile, slumber and many more. This is real jazz.

True warrior of the art, slaying dragons to keep the musical truth from being snuffed out... such a hip cat...

Love this musician, and love that he spoke so highly of Sun Ra. Sun Ra doesn't get enough credit for how much he advanced music, and he did it like no one else.

His solo in the Connection clip is so great. Probably some of the best Jackie Mclean, I've ever heard.

GREAT ALTOPLAYER & GREAT 🎼🎵🎶EDUCATOR 🎷

I grew up listening to and loving the music of Jackie McLean, but I never knew, till now, what a magnetic personality he was. The man fairly beamed with charisma and eloquence.

EXCELLENT Documentary!!! Mr. McLean is SO underrated!!!!

Love Jackie McLean.Such a great man.

This documentary ranks with the one that Gil Noble did on Jackie McLean. It is as much a reflection of McLean's life and triumphs as a musician as it is a barometer of the time in which it was made. The late 1970s and early 1980s was a time when many said jazz was a dying art form. Thanks to Jackie McLean and others that never happened.

I went to the Hartt School in 1989 to study jazz. Jackie McLean liked my audition and I made it in. I left for personal reasons (and got a doctorate in history instead -- long story). It had nothing to do with the faculty. Nat Reeves was my ensemble teacher and was one of the kindest and most understanding men I've ever met. Rick Rozzie was excellent too. While my time there was brief, I'm proud to have studied at Hartt under these guys.

In addition to being an excellent look at Jackie McLean personally, I also really like that this documentary sort of shows both sides of the jazz world at this time, since Jackie McLean was at the center of them both. By that, I mean how in this period in the 70s the established jazz scene, sort of informal and centered around clubs, was still solidly around, but the more formal and academic jazz scene was starting to form in places like Hartford. Jackie McLean was actively gigging, but was also actively teaching, so he was involved in both sides of it. I feel like the academic scene has become more prevalent in more recent years, and it's very easy to see that as a bad thing, that jazz music has become academic and become disconnected from its roots. But when you look at the perspective of someone from this time period like J-Mac, you can see that tying jazz with academia was sort of a survival strategy for jazz musicians - when the options are to either play and teach music you feel good about in an academic setting or to play independently, but be forced to play music you have no passion for to get by economically, it's easy to see why so many jazz musicians turned to academia. At this time, that was their way of perpetuating the existence of jazz music. And on a positive note, I think it worked. I think the situation in recent years has gotten better in some ways, and I think we've seen a resurgence in jazz music that doesn't come from academia - but I think that resurgence is possible because jazz was kept alive when there was no attention on it, and academia was part of why it stayed alive.

I am pleased that he shows a picture of him self and my dear old friend Dexter Gordon. They played wonderful together and fortunately they also recorded together.

"Tryin to explain the why of everything", yeah, so Jackie was here and he played and I listened and I'm thankful and that's enough.

What a blessing Jackie was. I have such a high regard for his work.

Nobody can play a better blues than Jackie!

I love him for telling that he admires Lou too.

The truth speaks for itself through we the artists. Jackie was a close friend and brother to me. Importantly, his complimentary reference to Sun Ra brought tears to my eyes. What a great documentary for those who hear, listen and seek the truth. There are those outside the black experience who discount what we as Afrikan / Native American men have gone through to date. Through planned / plotted racism set towards us we creatively channeled that energy which became the power behind our music (Jazz) which no one can take away. There was only one "J Mc". Michael D. Anderson (Sun Ra Arkestra member) Executive Director of The Sun Ra Music Archive

jackies playing on the classic mingus album blues and roots just blows me away so soild and strong and allso he plays so good on his album lights out

This is a documentary of one of my favorites jazz musicians. You need to know hun. I would drive 40 miles in pouring rain to listen to great jazz musicians.

Met him in Perugia Jazz in the early 80s while serving in the US Navy in Naples. Cool cat who appreciated our service and shared some thoughts on the festival, actually went to see Dizzy, but ended up seeing n learning more about art. Such a wonderful human being. Now In my 60s, I do my share to share jazz n our heros. I am a lucky man, saw so many greats throughout Europe m Asia including my man Miles amongst others. God has blessed n I try to pay it forward.

Don't understand the comments on here about Jackie saying "crazy" things. Everything he said he was true. Thanks for uploading this. Jackie is my saxophone god, more than any of the others. Any shred I can see or hear or read about him I devour.

The story about the Parisian traffic cop holding traffic so Bud Powell could cross the street made me cry. This would NEVER have happened in the United States...NEVER.

Excelente excursión por April in Paris ... Jackie Mclean es el mejor ejemplo para demostrar que lo más importante es tener un sonido propio. Oyes un par de notas al alto y ya sabes que es él.

What a beautiful brilliant cat. Master musician and teacher. Thinker, influencer. Mensch.

Hard to believe Jackie is gone....here we get him talking about things that are finally being discussed in the society allthough there is still much resistance from the system. Jackie McLean was saying these things 40 years ago...he lived it .

Wow,what a profound individual Jackie Mclean was.Everybody should see this video.A true American hero!

still love his music!!

Brilliant! Those arpeggios he's blowing are incredible! What a great artist Jackie Mac was!

Beauty...Thank you for the excellent vibrations...Jackie McLean ....yes....

Mr. McLean's album A Long Drink of the Blues frequently ends up in my CD player.

I agree with DC Young. Next to Trane, Jackie is the my favorite sax man. A powerful documentary!

Jackie, his family and his contributions to the community and the university will forever have a major impact on me. He touched my soul.

I love how in one scene, he’s seen joyfully conducting a group of children as they count, directing each number as if it were a note in a composition. And in another, he gets into a heated discussion with college students on how to work within the commercial music industry, the importance of preserving jazz as American classical music, and the genius of Sun Ra.

First time I heard Jackie Maclean was in the " Connection " and I was hooked. He simply changed my way of playing.

Five 'likes' from me. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Thank you for sharing! I'm digging into the greats more each day and this was such a wonderful thing to come across.

What an incredible human being - a true jazz genius !! Fantastic composer/virtuosic sax player.

Extremely lucid. Thank you for the post

Thank you so much for posting this. One of my favorites, someone I've always admired for his devotion to his academic work, which, it sounds like, came with a price. But so many benefited from who he was. Really exceptional. Merci!

This is awesome. Jackie covers a lot of ground about how the government influences how the general public thinks and enjoys

My alto saxophone reference sound!! Jackie McLean's my guardian angel!! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

i 'd like to thank you for making it possible for me to view and listen to this;i'd not previously given myself the time that was required to focus on the music and playing by mr Mclean.i'm now very much in the place required

Nice documentary. Interesting how he pent 6 months learning Ginat Steps but never recorded it. He also never recorded a composition by Sun Ra. I love his playing. Sometimes it was shrill and sharp but he has a lot of passion in his playing and ideas. I like the album One Step Beyond. He also has some nice records in 90s with his son on tenor Rene McLean.

WOW!! I haven't seen this in over 30 years!! Thank you so much!!!

My man Jackie McLean, my favorite alto player. This is great.

To Mr Jackie Mclean , his wife and those responsible for this n more... Thank you and God bless you 🙏🏻🌟🔥🌟🙏🏾

That was incredible. Thank you for posting.

APRIL IN PARIS! YEAH!!!

Remarkable Genius, and Humanitarian

long live King Jackie.

he's a cool brother... I had no idea!!

Genius. Underrated.

jackie mac. the real thing. grew up with the best, and became one of the best. thank you so much for the upload. never seen this. great!

Love!

THNX!!

Many thanks for sharing.

just amazing...

amazing.

Magnifique merci !

Thanks for sharing!

Excellent!

thanks so much for posting this!! great documentary of a music legend.

WOW next level dude

Amazing! Thank you so much for posting.

Wow I Love this Guy

GREAT ARTIST !!

Thank you for posting this!!! I have it on VHS and hope it makes it to DVD.

I love this! And seeing faces like Jaki Byard's and Woody Shaw's makes me smile. Thanks for this upload.

Swing swang swinging. Epic. Ty JM.

Lov Jackie McLean!

My boy - so loveable he is.

Lightening my Day. I love Jacky Mac lean but I didn’t know he was great at this dimension .🙏

right, another great day serving justice on the internet...

A great documentary on most important issues, concerning music!

very unique guy Jackie as well his friends,Parker,Gordon,Rollins most of all jazz musicians of the 50's.

❤️❤️❤️

12:48 Powerful story

Prof Jackie!

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14:00 explained in Godfather 1. "We'll keep it in the dark communities. Let them lose their souls, they're animals anyway".

There's a clip of Jackie playing "What's New" with Woody Shaw at 9:46. Does anyone know if there is more video from that performance?

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Fucking brilliant

I’m friends w Dollie! This guy was like no other

28:42, says it all...

Great Artist

Alto sax rules

Love that passionate discussion about "The System".

apointment in ghana....

Anybody know the Sonny Rollins album being discussed @5:04?

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Could anyone tell me the name of the piece used behind the photo montage at the beginning of the documentary. What a blazing solo from Jackie.

Can anyone identify the tune they’re playing at the Five Spot starting at 20:11? And are there any recordings of Jackie playing with this band or a similar group, with the Rhodes and electric bass and guitar? I’d love to hear more.

JAKI BYARD! 5:42

What's the tune that starts right near the beginning after he's talking about his hands? Start at 2:25 (not counting an intro that may nor may not be a part of the tune)...