John Jenkins, alto saxophone

[Gheorghe]

On 5/14/2026 at 7:15 AM, felser said:

PA (in this case U.K., not Andorran) label to the rescue if you are so inclined:

oh now I think I remember on Clifford Jordon the second pic there from the small pics, I have that album, it might have Clifford with larger ensemble, with Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, John Jenkins. Yeah. I have the japanese cardboard mini lp cover CD

 

[bertrand]

I confess that it is kind of hard to tell him apart from Jackie Mac on the Alto Madness record.

[Holy Ghost]

16 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

I know what you mean about BN. There's so much other music to listen to, and many of us have fully digested a lot of the catalog. It is a good record, though.

I much miss the Connoisseur Series and Deep Grooves CD issues. So much has been released on vinyl now, in the right album sleeve artwork, down to the right catalogue number, it cringes my very fabric of the CD buying sector to the point I just largely stopped buying anything at all; blah. What about those listeners stuck with all these CD's, that would've loved to see such attention paid to details in the CD market? This is just a snippet of what I loathe of this vinyl outbreak. A total turnoff. 

Edited 12 hours ago by Holy Ghost

[Holy Ghost]

9 hours ago, bertrand said:

I confess that it is kind of hard to tell him apart from Jackie Mac on the Alto Madness record.

I have the CD and get what you say, but I believe he became his own voice starting with "Let Freedom Ring" maybe a little before.

[Peter Friedman]

26 minutes ago, Holy Ghost said:

I have the CD and get what you say, but I believe he became his own voice starting with "Let Freedom Ring" maybe a little before.

To my ears, Jackie McLean had his own "Voice" back in the 50's . I first became a serious fan with Jackie's first album as leader on the Ad Lib label, and his sideman playing on "George Wallington Quintet - Live at Cafe Bohemia'. Both were recorded in 1955. 

I purchased both when they were first released on LP. Those two LPs infected me with a life long affection for the playing of Jackie McLean.

[AllenLowe]

1 hour ago, Holy Ghost said:

I have the CD and get what you say, but I believe he became his own voice starting with "Let Freedom Ring" maybe a little before.

Jackie, as said above, had a unique voice from the beginning. His debut CD as a leader, from 1956 I think, is an absolute gem.