Strange Blues

Strange Blues
Studio album by
Released1967
RecordedFebruary 15 & July 12, 1957
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
GenreJazz
Length37:15
LabelPrestige
PR 7500
ProducerDon Schlitten
Jackie McLean chronology
A Long Drink of the Blues
(1957)
Strange Blues
(1967)
Alto Madness
(1957)

Strange Blues is an album by American saxophonist Jackie McLean, recorded in 1957 and released on the Prestige label.[1][2] It features three tracks with McLean in a quartet featuring pianist Jon Mayer, bassist Bill Salter and drummer Larry Ritchie, one with a quartet featuring pianist Mal Waldron, bassist Art Phipps and drummer Art Taylor and one with a quartet featuring pianist Gil Coggins, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Louis Hayes. Trumpeter Webster Young and tuba player Ray Draper appear together on two tracks.

  1. ^ Jackie McLean discography accessed July 26, 2013
  2. ^ Courant, OWEN McNALLY; Special To The (13 April 2006). "SAMPLER A MINI-PORTRAIT OF MCLEAN AS YOUNG MAN". courant.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)