A Fickle Sonance (Blue Note 80): Vinyl LP Virgin Label Services and a month later Alfred

and a month later Alfred Lion brought the saxophonist back into the studio to record his own debut as a leader

Ain't It Funky Now

John McLaughlin and Bernie Maupin

a scaled-down edition of his renowned Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra

Bobby Hutcherson’s crystalline vibraphone

A Fickle Sonance (Blue Note 80): Vinyl LP Virgin Label Services and a month later AlfredRecorded in October 1961, A Fickle Sonance is a quintessential hard bop outing by Jackie McLean that also offered just a hint of the avant garde explorations the alto saxophonist was about to embark on in the years to come with the dissonances of the title tracks intro. Otherwise the fantastic quintetwith McLean joined by Tommy Turrentine on trumpet, Sonny Clark on piano, Butch Warren on piano, and Billy Higgins on drumskept it firmly in the pocket on