Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring (Tone Poet Series) Artist_NAS Jan Bangma: bass

Jan Bangma: bass

and Tomas Hallonsten

was both a great soul guitarist and dextrous keyboard player and known for genius chord progressions

The band succeeds best in the slower moments

Alchemy Records' reissue project is now under way

Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring (Tone Poet Series) Artist_NAS Jan Bangma: bassJackie McLeans 1962 album Let Freedom Ring reflected the change in the air of the early 60s: both the musical freedoms being explored by the emergent avant garde movement and the social freedoms sought by the ascendent civil rights movement. This four song set featuring the alto saxophonist with Walter Davis Jr. on piano, Herbie Lewis on bass, and Billy Higgins on drums melds the bluesy language of hard bop with the bristling energy of The New Thing.