The 16-minute “Chasin’ The Trane” is blazing hard bop with Coltrane’s endless stream-of-consciousness solo almost reaching free-jazz intensity while always grounded by Jones’s muscular
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Herbie Hancock: The Prisoner LP (Tone Poet Series) canada-day-eligible The 16-minute “Chasin’ The Trane”Blue Note, 1969 Recorded and released in 1969, Herbie Hancocks last Blue Note album, The Prisoner, is a powerful but overlooked masterpiece. A moving tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, this nonet session features some of the most exceptional instrumentalists in jazz including Joe Henderson, Johnny Coles, Hubert Laws, Garnett Brown, Buster Williams, and Albert Tootie Heath. Hancock said of The Prisoner: I've been able to get closer to the real me with