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Jackie McLean: 'Plays Fat Jazz,' 1957

Sandwiched between his Prestige and Blue Note recordings was this one for Jubilee

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Marc Myers
Aug 21, 2026
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Between his recordings for Prestige and New Jazz, a Prestige subsidiary (nine albums in all, from 1956 to 1957), and Blue Note (21 LPs between 1959 and 1967), alto saxophonist Jackie McLean recorded one album for Jubilee, a label that in the 1950s typically specialized in R&B.

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