Lights Out!

{{About|the album by Jackie McLean||Lights Out (disambiguation){{!}}Lights Out}}

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{{Infobox album

| name = Lights Out!

| type = studio

| artist = Jackie McLean

| cover = LightsOut.jpg

| alt =

| released = June 1956{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gAoEAAAAMBAJ&q=Lights+Out+7035&pg=PA38 |magazine=Billboard |title=Reviews and Ratings of Popular Albums |page=38 |date=23 June 1956 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |access-date=17 January 2023 |via=Google Books}}

| recorded = January 27, 1956

| venue =

| studio = Van Gelder, Hackensack, New Jersey

| genre = Jazz

| length = 45:58

| label = Prestige
PRLP 7035

| producer = Bob Weinstock

| prev_title = Presenting... Jackie McLean

| prev_year = 1955

| next_title = 4, 5 and 6

| next_year = 1956

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r143549|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic Review]

| rev2 = Disc

| rev2score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine |title=Jackie deserves the plaudits |last=Hall |first=Tony |author-link=Tony Hall (music executive) |magazine=Disc |date=15 March 1958 |issue=6 |page=17}}

| rev3 = DownBeat

| rev3Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}DownBeat:July 5, 1962 Vol. 29, No.14

| rev5 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev5Score = {{rating|3|5}}{{Cite book

|editor-last=Swenson

|editor-first=J.

| year = 1985

| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone

| location = USA

| isbn = 0-394-72643-X

| pages = 136

}}

| rev4 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

| rev4score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=978}}

}}

Lights Out! is a studio album by saxophonist Jackie McLean, his debut on Prestige Records. It was recorded in 1956 and released the same year as PRLP 7035. The album was reissued on CD in 1990 (as Original Jazz Classics OJCCD-426-2/Prestige P-7035).{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Jackie-McLean-Quintet-With-Donald-Byrd-And-Elmo-Hope-Lights-Out/release/3111677|title=The Jackie McLean Quintet* With Donald Byrd And Elmo Hope – Lights Out!|website=Discogs|date=1990 |access-date=22 July 2018}} It was re-issued on 180 gram vinyl by Analogue Productions in 2012.{{cite web|url=http://www.thevinyldistrict.com/storefront/2012/11/graded-on-a-curve-jackie-mclean-lights-out/|title=Graded on a Curve: Jackie McLean, Lights Out! – The Vinyl District|date=7 November 2012|access-date=22 July 2018}} It features McLean in a quintet with trumpeter Donald Byrd, pianist Elmo Hope, bassist Doug Watkins and drummer Art Taylor.