Makin' the Changes

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{{Infobox album

| name = Makin' the Changes

| type = studio

| artist = Jackie McLean

| cover = Makin'_the_Changes.jpg

| alt =

| released = August 1960Schwann Monthly Guide to Stereo Records, 1965

| recorded = February 15 & August 30, 1957

| venue =

| studio = Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey

| genre = Jazz

| length = 35:53

| label = New Jazz
NJ 8231

| producer = Bob Weinstock

| prev_title = Jackie McLean & Co.

| prev_year = 1957

| next_title = A Long Drink of the Blues

| next_year = 1957

}}

{{Album reviews

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r143551|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic Review]

|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

|rev2score = {{Rating|3|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}}

}}

Makin' the Changes is a studio album by saxophonist Jackie McLean. It was recorded in 1957 for Prestige, but not released until 1960 by the subsidiary label New Jazz as NJ 8231. It features three tracks with McLean in a quartet with pianist Mal Waldron, bassist Arthur Phipps and drummer Art Taylor, and three with a sextet featuring trumpeter Webster Young, trombonist Curtis Fuller, pianist Gil Coggins, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Louis Hayes.