Makin' the Changes

Makin' the Changes
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 1960
RecordedFebruary 15 & August 30, 1957
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
GenreJazz
Length35:53
LabelNew Jazz
NJ 8231
ProducerBob Weinstock
Jackie McLean chronology
Jackie McLean & Co.
(1957)
Makin' the Changes
(1960)
A Long Drink of the Blues
(1957)
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

Makin' the Changes is a studio album by saxophonist Jackie McLean. It was recorded in 1957 for Prestige, but not released until 1960 by the subsidiary label New Jazz as NJ 8231. It features three tracks with McLean in a quartet with pianist Mal Waldron, bassist Arthur Phipps and drummer Art Taylor, and three with a sextet featuring trumpeter Webster Young, trombonist Curtis Fuller, pianist Gil Coggins, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Louis Hayes.