McLean's Scene

McLean's Scene
Studio album by
ReleasedMay 1959
RecordedDecember 14, 1956
February 15, 1957
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Hackensack
GenreJazz
Length40:33
LabelNew Jazz
NJ 8212
ProducerBob Weinstock
Jackie McLean chronology
Jackie's Pal
(1956)
McLean's Scene
(1959)
Jackie McLean & Co.
(1957)
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Allmusic
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

McLean's Scene is a studio album by saxophonist Jackie McLean. It was recorded in 1956 and 1957, but not released until 1959 on Prestige's subsidiary label New Jazz Records, as NJ 8212. It was reissued on CD in 1991. Three tracks features McLean in a quintet with trumpeter Bill Hardman, pianist William “Red” Garland, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Art Taylor, and the remainder a quartet with pianist Mal Waldron, bassist Art Phipps and Art Taylor.