The Prisoner (album)

The Prisoner
Studio album by
Herbie Hancock
ReleasedJanuary 1970
RecordedApril 18, 21 & 23, 1969
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
GenreJazz
Length41:11 original LP
LabelBlue Note
BST 84321
ProducerDuke Pearson
Herbie Hancock chronology
Speak Like a Child
(1968) 		The Prisoner
(1970) 		Fat Albert Rotunda
(1969)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]

The Prisoner is the seventh Herbie Hancock album, recorded in 1969 and released in January 1970[4] for the Blue Note label, his final project for the label before moving to Warner Bros. Records. It is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who had been assassinated the previous year. Hancock suggested at the time that he had been able to get closer to his real self with this music than on any other previous album.[5] Participating musicians include tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, trumpeter Johnny Coles (on flugelhorn), trombonist Garnett Brown, flautist Hubert Laws, bassist Buster Williams and drummer Albert “Tootie” Heath. Hancock praised flute player Laws, suggesting that he was one of the finest flautists in classical or jazz music.

Composition

Like his ambitious Speak Like a Child, The Prisoner purports to stand as a "social statement written in music". The title track seeks to express "how black people have been imprisoned for a long time." The piece was first heard live in 1968, during a performance at the University of California Jazz Festival. "Firewater" represents 'the social duality of the oppressor and the oppressed: the fire symbolises the heat in violence and (abuse of) power, whilst the feeling of water recalls Martin Luther King. "He Who Lives in Fear" also alludes to King, since he "had to live in an atmosphere charged with intimidation". (Disappointingly, perhaps, given the ambitions Herbie seems to have expressed for the tune, an early arrangement was used as the musical theme for a Silva Thins cigarette TV commercial.) Continuing the album's apparent theme, the "Promise of the Sun" symbolises "how the sun promises life and freedom to all living things, and yet blacks are not yet free."[5]

Track listing

All compositions by Herbie Hancock, except "Firewater" composed by C. B. Williams.

Side one

  1. "I Have a Dream" – 10:58
  2. "The Prisoner" – 7:57

Side two

  1. "Firewater" – 7:33
  2. "He Who Lives in Fear" – 6:51
  3. "Promise of the Sun" – 7:52

Bonus tracks on CD reissue

  2. "The Prisoner" (alternate take) – 5:47
  3. "Firewater" (alternate take) – 8:38

Recording dates

  • April 18, 1969 – tracks 2, 4 and 6
  • April 21, 1969 – track 1
  • April 23, 1969 – tracks 3, 5 and 7

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas (2011). "The Prisoner - Herbie Hancock | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 26 June 2011.
  2. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 93. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 641. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Billboard-Index/IDX/1970/1970-02-07-Billboard-Page-0045.pdf#search=%22bst%2084321%22 [bare URL]
  5. ^ a b Original liner notes by Herb Wong

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