Jackie Mclean .A Long Drink Of The Blues.

A Long Drink of the Blues is a studio album by saxophonist Jackie McLean. Recorded in 1957, and released in 1961 on New Jazz Records.

It features two tracks with McLean in a sextet featuring trumpeter Webster Young, trombonist Curtis Fuller, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Louis Hayes, and three with a quartet featuring pianist Mal Waldron, bassist Art Phipps and drummer Art Taylor.

“If you dig Jackie this side will interest you greatly. It is the only recording of Jackie on tenor that i know of. You can hear a whole lot of Sonny Rollins here, but unmistably Jackie McLean.
Also there is a great argument between Jackie and Gil Coggins.
I love this side”

“Jackie McLean is a Professor of Music in Hartford, Connecticut, but he is still a world-class player who tours annually in Europe and Japan. This album, representing two different bands from two separate 1957 sessions, was done a few years before Jackie appeared as both actor and player in The Connection, but “A Long Drink of the Blues,” in two takes, has both dialogue (spontaneous) and blowing by McLean (on tenor sax as well as his more familiar alto), trombonist Curtis Fuller, and two legendary figures, trumpeter Webster Young and Brooklyn pianist Gil Coggins. The rest of the date, in contrast, finds Jackie (solely on alto) with pianist Mal Waldron, exploring three standard ballads in a highly subjective manner.”