Herbie Hancock

• BLUE NOTE TONE POET EDITION

• audiophile vinyl reissues

• MASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL ANALOG TAPES

• PRODUCED BY MUSIC MATTERS' JOE HARLEY!

• 180 GRAM VINYL (PRESSED AT RTI)

Recorded and released in 1969, Herbie Hancock's 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 this album than on any other previous one."

PERSONNEL:

• HERBIE HANCOCK, piano, electric piano
• JOE HENDERSON, tenor sax, alto flute
• JOHNNY COLES, flugelhorn
• BUSTER WILLIAMS, bass
• ALBERT HEATH, drums
• GARNETT BROWN, trombone
• HUBERT LAWS, flute
• JEROME RICHARDSON, bass clarinet, flute
• ROMEO PENQUE, bass clarinet
• TONY STUDD, bass trombone
• JACK JEFFERS, bass trombone

Recorded April 18, 21 & 23, 1969 at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A:
• 01. I Have a Dream
• 02. The Prisoner

• SIDE B:
• 01. Firewater
• 02. He Who Lives In Fear
• 03. Promise Of The Sun