The Prisoner
Herbie Hancock · 1969 · Blue Note
Personnel
Johnny Colescoming soon
played Flugelhorn on this album
Garnett Browncoming soon
played Trombone on this album
The Sidewinder (1964) is a Lee Morgan hard-bop date, yet its title track became an unexpected commercial hit on jukeboxes and the charts — a straight-ahead session that boosted Blue Note enough that imitation openers followed for years. Joe Henderson, known as a cerebral tenor, is at the center of it.
In 1969, Buster Williams played bass under a full orchestra on Herbie Hancock's The Prisoner. In 2005, the same bassist turned up on Native Lands, an album led by the drummer of a rock band — a jazz veteran quietly crossing into rock territory.
Jerome Richardson worked reed sections across the bebop era — but in 1959 he found himself in a horn section assembled under an arranger's baton, with Miles Davis, already a star bandleader in his own right, sitting in as a sideman.
Around 1969
