Lights Out!

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Lights Out!
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 1956[1]
RecordedJanuary 27, 1956
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
GenreJazz
Length45:58
LabelPrestige
PRLP 7035
ProducerBob Weinstock
Jackie McLean chronology
Presenting... Jackie McLean
(1955)
Lights Out!
(1956)
4, 5 and 6
(1956)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
[5]

Lights Out! is a studio album by saxophonist Jackie McLean, his debut on Prestige Records. It was recorded in 1956 and released the same year as PRLP 7035. The album was reissued on CD in 1990 (as Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-426-2/Prestige P-7035).[6] It was re-issued on 180 gram vinyl by Analogue Productions in 2012.[7] It features McLean in a quintet with trumpeter Donald Byrd, pianist Elmo Hope, bassist Doug Watkins and drummer Art Taylor.

Reception

Reviewing the 2012 vinyl re-issue, Joseph Neff said of the title track:

But if not a masterwork, it does have plenty to recommend, opening with the title cut, an extended slow blues that gives the horns and

hard-bop form at the time this recording was made. I especially enjoy how towards the end McLean's and Byrd's horns tangle around in loose dialogue, offering summation after Hope finishes his superb solo.[7]

Track listing

  1. "Lights Out" (Jackie McLean) – 13:00
  2. "Up" (McLean) – 4:47
  3. "Lorraine" (Donald Byrd) – 6:26
  4. "A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 6:24
  5. "Kerplunk" (Byrd) – 8:51
  6. "Inding" (McLean) – 6:30

Personnel

References

  1. ^ "Reviews and Ratings of Popular Albums". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 23 June 1956. p. 38. Retrieved 17 January 2023 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ DownBeat:July 5, 1962 Vol. 29, No.14
  3. ^ Allmusic Review
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  6. ^ "The Jackie McLean Quintet* With Donald Byrd And Elmo Hope – Lights Out!". Discogs. 1990. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
  7. ^ a b "Graded on a Curve: Jackie McLean, Lights Out! – The Vinyl District". 7 November 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2018.

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