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Jackie McLean Quotes

Jackie McLean Quotes

Monk was someone that we used to go down to his house, some of us, and he'd let us come in and listen to him play. When I was about fifteen, he let me come one time and sit in with him when he was playing in the Bronx. Of course, I couldn't play anything. I was only playing a year. Monk made himself available to a lot of young guys at that time. He liked people that were interested in music. If he saw a young guy trying to play, he certainly didn't get in the way of it. He tried to support it.
Jackie McLean

I was a bebop baby. All of those guys thought, "Oh, man, little Jackie," because I was younger than Sonny. Sonny was a bebop baby too, but I was younger than Sonny and looked younger than him. I was chubby and had a real youthful look and my voice didn't change until late. Bud and Monk, as well as Bird, they would all, "Oh, yeah, Jackie." Suddenly, after the two and a half years that I sat in Bud's house, practically on a daily basis, because I went to Bud's house at least four to five times per week, every week for two and a half years. I'd spend the night down there. My mother would let me go down there and sleep over. It was just incredible, all the music I heard.
Jackie McLean



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