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Birth name | John Lenwood McLean |
Born | New York City, U.S. | May 17, 1931
Died | March 31, 2006 Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. | (aged 74)
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Instrument | Alto saxophone |
Years active | 1951โ2004 |
John Lenwood McLean (May 17, 1931 โ March 31, 2006)[1] was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator, and is one of the few musicians to be elected to the DownBeat Hall of Fame in the year of their death.
John Lenwood McLean was born in Harlem on May 17, 1931. (Many sources give his year of birth as 1932, but The Grove Dictionary of Jazz and other authoritative reference works say he was born a year earlier.)