The third selection, the blues "Chasin' the Trane", is seen by some as "the birth cry of sixties avant-garde jazz: an outpouring of stylistic tongues and melodic ideas that linked the bebop dexterity and daring of the past with a free, stripped-bare, spiritually charged future," and was described by Coltrane biographer Ben Ratliff as "a great statement...", his "landmark performance of the period", and "one of the most important recordings in jazz as it is currently practiced." One notable aspect of the track is the fact that it was recorded as a trio, without Tyner, freeing Coltrane, who plays tenor sax, from the harmonic underpinnings normally provided by the piano. Jimmy Garrison, the bassist on "Chasin' the Trane", had recently played with Ornette Coleman's piano-less quartet, and, in a 1961 interview prior to the recording, Coltrane expressed great admiration for Coleman and acknowledged his influence, stating that "there probably will be some songs in the future that we're going to play, just as Ornette does, with no accompaniment from the piano at all." Coltrane also noted: "When I played with Monk... I played many times without a piano: Monk... after two pieces, would return to the dressing room or even stand looking out the window for two or three hours. So, we played without a piano."