Initially, McLean's style was similar to Parker's; in the 1960s, he embraced the "free jazz" of Ornette Coleman.
In 1970, McLean began teaching at the Hartt School of music at the University of Hartford. He eventually founded the African-American Music program there, one of the first degree programs dedicated to jazz, according to the Times. It is now known as the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz.
He received the NEA Jazz Master award, the nation's highest honor for jazz musicians, in 2001.
The singers are leading the Metropolitan Opera premiere of John Adams' work.
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
Lileana Blain-Cruz's production of John Adams' opera-oratorio opened April 23.
Composer John Adams and theatre director Lileana Blain-Cruz retells the story of the Nativity, through the lens of Latin America.
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