

Alto-sax heavyweight Jackie McLean was known as a musical firebrand, but he had his reflective side too. His keening, lyrical lines paint delicate-yet-indelible colors across the canvas of "For Hofsa", and when McLean sinks his teeth into a jazz standard like "I Cover the Waterfront", he gracefully glides across the classic chord changes with the unhurried authority of a man who's mastered the bop book.