Very Best of Prestige - V/A

NEW VINYL LP ON PRESTIGE 2012.

Prestige and Blue Note Records were arguably the two greatest labels of the Hard Bop era. They recorded many of the same artists, including jazz giants like Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Jackie McLean, and Sonny Rollins, as well as less publicized musicians like Gil Mellé and George Braith. They even shared the same recording engineer—the venerable Rudy Van Gelder. However, where Blue Note’s sessions had a burnished intensity, Prestige’s were looser, more spontaneous. They were the two sides of the same jazz coin. After their counterpart recently marked their 70th year, Prestige now celebrates their 60th anniversary, with The Very Best of Prestige Records, a commemorative double-disk collection of their classic instrumental jazz sessions.

Tracklist.

1. Subconscious (Lee Konitz/Lennie Tristano)
2. Blue Monk (Thelonious Monk)
3. Django (Modern Jazz Quartet)
4. St. Thomas (Sonny Rollins)
5. If I Were a Bell (The Miles Davis Quintet) )
6. I Love You (John Coltrane)
7. Les (Eric Dolphy)
8. Misty (Richard Groove Holmes)