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Jackie McLean was an American jazz alto saxophonist born on May 17, 1931, in New York City, New York. He passed away on March 31, 2006, in Hartford, Connecticut, at the age of 74. McLean's father, John McLean, who died in 1939, was a guitarist. Initially, McLean was oriented towards bebop in the 1950s, but he developed a freer approach in the 1960s. He appeared in the Jack Gelber play "The Connection" at the Living Theatre, an off-Broadway venue, and in the 1961 film version directed by Shirley Clarke. After his Blue Note contract was terminated, McLean spent much of the 1970s and 1980s as a music educator before reviving his performing career in the 1990s.

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