Makin' the Changes

1. Bean and the Boys

2. What's New?

3. I Never Knew

4. I Hear a Rhapsody

5. Jackie's Ghost

6. Chasin' the Bird

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Tracks:

Modern Day Cowboy
Gettin' Better
Little Suzi
Heaven's Trail (No Way Out)
The Way It Is
Love Song
Signs
Paradise
Edison's Medicine
Song & Emotion
What You Give
Mama's Fool
Alot To Lose
Steppin' Over
Changes

Customer Reviews:

I love Tesla........2007-07-18

This is a great CD with Heaven's Trail, The Way It Is and What You Give. They are such a pure rock band and it shows on this CD.

Good As It Gets.......2006-09-21

I'm really more of a fan of bands from the 60s and 70s but Tesla makes a huge exception. I saw them at Moondance Jam in 2005 and just thought they were great. They blew my socks off and for good reason. In a time when the music was getting worse Tesla kept real rock n roll alive. This album is just outstanding. Every track is good and they rock and keep rocking.

Unappreciated Rock.......2005-07-29

This "best of" collection from nuts and bolts rockers Tesla favorably bookends their more than credible career in the 80's and 90's. Guitarist Frank Hannon and raspy singer Jeff Keith are mainly responsible for the band's gritty, earthy sound that holds up very well a dedcade or more later. The big ballad hits "Love Song" and the country-ish "What You Give" are here, alongside the stomping "Heaven's Trail" and the band's cold war theme song "Modern Day Cowboy." Throw in their classic cover of "Signs" and you have a good view of an underappreciated "rock" band.

a real rock band from the hair band world.......2005-07-22

These guys came along a generation to late. Tesla is a really talented band from a time when hairspray was the in thing. These guys could write music and are a very talented group of musicians. This cd covers a career that could have happened in the seventies. I saw these guys during their first tour. They were amazing. Their music was a throwback to real rock n' roll. I have listen to this cd many times and it never gets old.

Total Rockin.......2005-04-21

I love this band, and all the songs are awesome. I met my husband with this cd. Wish i could afford having them to play. ha-ha. They are the most wonderful and romantic from rock that I can think of. I hope they will make a comeback since everything seems to jump back in style. I've seen them in concert and they are the only rock band, that sounds the same, like you are hearing their cd. Beutiful accoustic band. ROCK ON!!!!!!

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Superbe
Great album by Jackie McLean before the Blue Note years
dig it!

Makin' the Changes
Jackie McLean
Manufacturer: Ojc
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000YB2
Release Date: 1990-10-17

Tracks:

Bean And The Boys
What's New
I Never Knew
I Hear A Rhapsody
Jackie's Ghost
Chasin' The Bird

Customer Reviews:

Superbe.......2006-05-05

Tr?s grand album de McLean, superbes improvisations. Cet album doit faire partie de la collection de toute personne aimant le Jazz.

Great album by Jackie McLean before the Blue Note years.......2005-10-07

Sorry,but I can't give five stars to this record.If I do,how many stars should I give to McLean's outstanding Blue Note albums like "Bluesnik","Destination out","Swing,swang,swinging","let freedom ring" or "Right now"? So,this very excellent hard bop session deserves "only" four stars,even if Jackie's playing is totally amazing.
This record is made of two different recording sessions,both made in 1957;"A long drink of the blues",another McLean's New Jazz item,was made with material recorded during the same sessions.
The quartet session (and it's my favorite one,maybe because it gave MCLean an extraordinary opportunity to pay a dramatic and magnificent tribute to Billie Holiday on the "Long drink" record,made of "Embraceable you","I cover the waterfront" and "these foolish things") features McLean with the great Mal Waldron on piano,Arthur Phipps on bass and a fine Art Taylor on drums.The sextet session,recorded six months later,features Curtis Fuller,trombone,Webster Young,trumpet,Gil Coggins,piano,Paul Chambers,bass and Louis Hayes,drums.

Jackie McLean is really a miraculously healed guy.73 years old now,and still alive and playing.It seems incredible that this man could survive such a drug addiction for years and years (even if he is totally sober for many years).Remember his dramatical participation in that very difficult movie,"the connection".McLean's style is a very complex one,made of course,with strong influences of sax players (Charlie Parker,first,but also Dexter Gordon,Coleman Hawkins,Benny Carter,and some Sonny Rollins and Johnny Griffin too),but also an evident relation with Bud Powell,one of the greatest piano players,and an the shadow of Billie Holiday's singing.

His sound is violent and earthy,his playing is full of rhythmical breakings.Remember his tragical improvisation on "Melody for Melonae",remember the emotional power of his two Steeplechase albums recorded at the Left Bank Jazz Society,Baltimore,1966;McLean always played as if his life would stop the minute after.This guy had no time to loose.
You can hear that in "Jacjie's ghost",in "What's new"(the fourth part of the tribute to Lady Day),or in "Bean and the boys",the masterpiece of this album."Bean and the boys" was first recorded by its writer,Coleman Hawkins (1904-1969,who's nickname was "Bean" or "The Hawk",and who happened to be the Louis Armstrong of the tenor saxophone,the "creator" of the instrument,the greatest of them all),and the "boys" were Fats Navarro,J.J.Johnson,Milt Jackson and Max Roach.You can see that these boys became absolute stars a couple of years later.Among these boys,and even if they didn't play on the original 1946 recording,you can name Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell,who were Coleman Hawkins' protégés and became some of the most celebrated jazz heroes.
1957,the 25 years old John Lenwood McLean was on his way to glory;he was on his way to tragedy,too.They say that masterpieces often are made of pain;you can imagine what his miraculous "Melody for Melonae" was made of.And even if this CD doesn't appear into McLean's discography as one of the most essential record,even if it is an excellent one,it would be a terrible mistake to miss it,because there's great music here,and because it will help you to discover the way McLean followed to go as far as his "New and old gospel" album (Blue Note again,with...Ornette Coleman).

dig it!.......2004-06-24

like Dupree, like Kenny, like wilbur h., like little johnny C, like roy b., like jackie's pal, like WEBSTER. nuff said. you better dig it. it's a "LONG DRINK OF THE BLUES" DJ EDDIE FREEZE CLEVELAND OHIO

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Makin' the Changes

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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000ECY3IE
Release Date: 2006-03-28

Time's Makin' Changes: The Best Of Tesla

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Time's Makin' Changes: The Best Of Tesla
Tesla
Manufacturer: Geffen
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000LWO15M

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