Let Freedom Ring

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Let Freedom Ring
Album by Jackie McLean
Released	1962
Recorded	1962
Genre	Jazz
Length	38:06
Label	Blue Note
'''Producer	Alfred Lion
Professional reviews
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Jackie McLean chronology
A Fickle Sonance (1961)	Let Freedom Ring (1962)	The Jackie McLean Quintet (1962)

Let Freedom Ring is an album by jazz saxophonist Jackie McLean, recorded in 1962.

McLean wrote three of the four compositions. "Melody for Melonae" is dedicated to his daughter (as was an earlier composition, "Little Melonae"), and appeared as "Melanie" on Matador, a later recording that he made with Kenny Dorham. The (slower-tempo) performance on Let Freedom Ring is notable as being the first time that McLean used "provocative upper-register screams".Bob Blumenthal's liner notes for the 2003 RVG Edition reissue. "Rene" and "Omega" are both blues-related pieces, the former with a standard twelve-bar structure and harmonies, the latter more abstract and modal. The one non-McLean track is Bud Powell's ballad, "I'll Keep Loving You"

Track listing

1. "Melody for Melonae" (McLean) –13:24
2. "I'll Keep Loving You" (Powell) –6:18
3. "Rene" (McLean) –10:03
4. "Omega" (McLean) –8:29

:(Recorded on 19 March 1962 by Rudy Van Gelder at the Van Gelder Studio, Eaglewood Cliffs, New Jersey.)

Personnel

• Jackie McLean — alto saxophone
• Walter Davis, Jr. — piano
• Herbie Lewis — bass
• Billy Higgins — drums

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