New Soil

{{Infobox album

| name = New Soil

| type = Album

| cover = New Soil.jpg

| alt =

| released = August 1959[https://books.google.com/books?id=NgoEAAAAMBAJ&dq=McLean+New+Soil+4013&pg=PA53 Billboard Aug 31, 1959]

| recorded = May 2, 1959

| venue =

| studio = Van Gelder Studio
Hackensack, New Jersey

| genre = Jazz

| length = 38:31 (LP)
44:47 (CD)

| label = Blue Note
BLP 4013

| producer = Alfred Lion

| chronology = Jackie McLean

| prev_title = Fat Jazz

| prev_year = 1959

| next_title = Swing, Swang, Swingin'

| next_year = 1959

}}

New Soil is an album by American jazz saxophonist Jackie McLean recorded on May 2, 1959 and released on Blue Note later that year.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/jackie-mclean/catalog/#blue-note-blp-4013 Jackie McLean discography] accessed October 15, 2010 McLean's quintet features trumpeter Donald Byrd and rhythm section Walter Davis Jr., Paul Chambers and Pete La Roca.

Reception

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}

| rev2 = Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev2Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}

| rev3 = Tom Hull

| rev3Score = A{{cite web|last=Hull|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Hull (critic)|date=n.d.|url=http://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/jnotes/ej1950s.php|title=Essential Jazz Albums of the 1950s|website=tomhull.com|access-date=March 12, 2020}}

| rev4 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

| rev4score = {{Rating|4|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=979}}

}}

The AllMusic review by Steve Huey states, "New Soil wasn't the first session Jackie McLean recorded for Blue Note, but it was the first one released, and as the title suggests, the first glimmerings of McLean's desire to push beyond the limits of bop are already apparent... It could be argued that McLean never recorded a bad album for Blue Note, and New Soil got his career with the label off to a terrifically stimulating start."Huey, S. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=new-soil-r143556|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic Review] accessed October 15, 2010