Lights Out! Explained

Lights Out!
Type:	studio
Artist:	Jackie McLean
Cover:	LightsOut.jpg
Released:	June 1956^[1]
Recorded:	January 27, 1956
Studio:	Van Gelder, Hackensack, New Jersey
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	45:58
Label:	Prestige PRLP 7035
Producer:	Bob Weinstock
Prev Title:	Presenting... Jackie McLean
Prev Year:	1955
Next Title:	4, 5 and 6
Next Year:	1956

Lights Out! is a studio album by saxophonist Jackie McLean, his debut on Prestige Records. It was recorded in 1956 and released the same year as PRLP 7035. The album was reissued on CD in 1990 (as Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-426-2/Prestige P-7035).^[2] It was re-issued on 180 gram vinyl by Analogue Productions in 2012.^[3] It features McLean in a quintet with trumpeter Donald Byrd, pianist Elmo Hope, bassist Doug Watkins and drummer Art Taylor.

Track listing

1. "Lights Out" (Jackie McLean) – 13:00
2. "Up" (McLean) – 4:47
3. "Lorraine" (Donald Byrd) – 6:26
4. "A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 6:24
5. "Kerplunk" (Byrd) – 8:51
6. "Inding" (McLean) – 6:30

Personnel

• Jackie McLean – alto saxophone
• Donald Byrd – trumpet
• Elmo Hope – piano
• Doug Watkins – bass
• Art Taylor – drums

Notes and References

1. Reviews and Ratings of Popular Albums . Billboard . 38 . 23 June 1956 . Nielsen Business Media, Inc. . 17 January 2023 . Google Books.
2. Web site: The Jackie McLean Quintet* With Donald Byrd And Elmo Hope – Lights Out!. Discogs. 1990 . 22 July 2018.
3. Web site: Graded on a Curve: Jackie McLean, Lights Out! – The Vinyl District. 7 November 2012. 22 July 2018.