Jackie and Rene McLean's

[White Lightning]

Jackie Mc was born in '32. Rene was born in 46. That makes Jackie Mc a father by the age of 14. What gives? Is Rene adopted? There must be a story behind these facts...

Please share!

[JSngry]

I don't think that Rene was adopted.

[bertrand]

Here is some extra information:

1. Jackie was born in 1931, not 1932. He explained somewhere (Spellman's book?) that he had made himself younger by a year for whatever reason (probably in his questionnaire for Feather's Jazz Encyclopedia), and the mistake 'took'. Both Rene McLean and Steve Davis confirmed that the year was 1931. Also, they had a big 70th birthday bash for Jackie at the Blue Note in NYC in May of 2001.

2. I always thought Rene was Jackie's son (they even look alike), but Philip on the board once stated as fact that Rene was adopted. He never did elaborate on his source for this information.

3. Miles was a father very young as well (16 or 17), so it's not impossible that Jackie was a father at 15.

Bertrand.

[brownie]

Jackie McLean has always been in the fast lane B)

[Claude]

I remember the conclusion of a discussion on the BNBB being that René is indeed Jackie's son, that he has not been adopted.