VA-The_Prestige_Records_Story-4CD-1999-JUST

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Artist.......: VA
Album........: The Prestige Records Story
Label........: Prestige
Genre........: Jazz
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: oct.-12-2005
str.date.....: aug.-24-1999
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
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track  title                                          time

       cd1

 01.   Lee Konitz - Subconscious-lee                 02:49
 02.   Stan Getz - Four and one more                 03:47
 03.   Wardell Gray - Twisted                        03:04
 04.   Sony Stitt - All goods Chillun got Rhythm     02:59
 05.   Gene Ammons - Blues up and Down               02:39
 06.   James Moody - I am in the Mood for Love       02:47
 07.   King Pleasure - Moodys Mood for Love          03:02
 08.   Annie Ross - Twisted                          02:39
 09.   Miles Davis - Dig                             07:34
 10.   Jimmy Raney n Stan Getz - Round Midnight      05:21
 11.   Miles Davis - The Serpent Tooth               07:01
 12.   Thelonious Monk - Blue Monk                   07:39
 13.   Miles Davis - Bags Groove (Take 2)            09:22
 14.   Milt Jackson - My funny Valentine             04:40
 15.   Miles Davis - Doxy                            04:55
 16.   The Modern Jazz Quartet - Django              07:03

       cd2

 01.   James Moody - Disappointed                    06:22
 02.   Miles Davis Sextet - Walkin                   13:26
 03.   Sonny Rollins - St Thomas                     06:46
 04.   Sonny Rollins - Pent-up House                 08:52
 05.   Miles Davis Quintet - Well you Need not       06:22
 06.   Tadd Dameron - On a Misty Night               06:22
 07.   Rad Garland - If i were a Bell                06:42
 08.   Gil Evans - Nobodys Heart                     04:24
 09.   John Coltrane - Russian Lullaby               05:33
 10.   Eddie Lockjaw Davis - In the Kitchen          12:56

       cd3

 01.   Gene Ammons - Canadian Sunset                 05:25
 02.   Coleman Hawkins - Trouble is a Man            05:29
 03.   Eddie Lockjaw Dawis - Very Saxy               08:17
 04.   Mose Allison - The 7th Son                    02:39
 05.   Eric Dolphy - G.W                             07:58
 06.   Roland Kirk - Kirks Work                      03:56
 07.   Oliver Nelson - Soul Street                   09:07
 08.   Etta Jones - Dont go to Strangers             03:52
 09.   Shirley Scott - Hip Soul                      06:28
 10.   Willis Jackson - This will get to ya          10:11
 11.   Jack Mc Duff - Rock candy                     06:17
 12.   Willis Jackson - Troubled Times               04:51

       cd4

 01.   Gene Ammons - Capurange (jungle Soul)         09:36
 02.   George Benson - Sweet Alice Blues             04:38
 03.   Richard Groove Holmes - Misty                 06:04
 04.   Illinois Jacquet - I wish i knew how it       06:38
       would feel to be Free
 05.   Sonny Criss - Smile                           04:41
 06.   Dexter Gordon - Fried Bananas                 06:08
 07.   Houston person - Jamilah                      05:32
 08.   Gene Ammons - Jungle Strut                    05:11
 09.   Charles Earland - More Today than Yesterday   03:45
 10.   Rusty Bryant - Soul Liberation                11:36
 11.   Boogaloo Joe Jones - No Way                   07:18
 12.   Gene Ammonos - You Talk that Talk             06:03

                                            Runtime  306:46 min
                                            Size     380,0 MB


Release Notes:

Along with Blue Note, Verve, and Riverside,
Prestige was one of the most significant
independent jazz labels of the '50s and '60s. It
was especially important in the '50s, recording the
decade's greatest figures--including Thelonious
Monk, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, and John
Coltrane--long before the major labels would
beckon. This four-CD set traces the label from its
founding by Bob Weinstock in 1949 until 1971 when
it was sold to Fantasy.

The first two CDs in the collection take the music
up to 1960, and they brim with superb tracks that
demonstrate the label's depth, range, and vision,
with performances by Monk, Lennie Tristano, and Gil
Evans that sound as quirky and inspired as when
they were recorded. Miles Davis was clearly the
label's most significant artist until he left for
Columbia in 1956; his work here ranges from the
sparse and extended "Bags' Groove," with Monk and
Milt Jackson, to hard-bitten bop. There's room here
for the cool lyricism of Stan Getz on "Round
Midnight" and the early Modern Jazz Quartet's
beautiful "Django," as well as Rollins's hard-edged
calypso, "St. Thomas," and Coltrane's brilliant,
forward-looking contribution to Tadd Dameron's "On
a Misty Night." Prestige also managed to have a few
surprise hit vocals in the period, and it's
terrific to have a disc that matches Wardell Gray's
original "Twisted" and James Moody's "I'm in the
Mood for Love," with Annie Ross's and King
Pleasure's joyous, vocalise transformations.

As the set continues its chronological journey
through the label's history after 1960, however, it
takes an unusual turn. Prestige was remarkably
diverse in the early '60s, with separate sublabels
like New Jazz, Swingville, Moodsville, and
Soulville to cover different genres, spanning the
classic swing piano of Claude Hopkins and the
atonal experiments of Don Ellis. It had an
extensive, and excellent, blues catalogue and even
released an LP of Norman Mailer's poetry. In this
set's view of Prestige's history, however, that
range gets very little attention, with the reissue
producers favoring stylistic consistency over
diversity. While there are nods to swing (Coleman
Hawkins), the avant-garde (Eric Dolphy), and
classic bop (Dexter Gordon), the set emphasizes the
tenor-organ-guitar funk bands that were the label's
commercial mainstay in its final active decade.
That's not to argue with the quality of what's
here, though. Gene Ammons's "Ca' Purange" is as
potent as soul-jazz ever got, and there's much
heartfelt, gritty music that communicates
immediately.

It may simply be that the project required more
discs (see The Blue Note Years) than this set
includes, but the cumulative effect is
schizophrenic, moving from the musically
adventurous to the populist. Meanwhile, the first
two discs provide as rich a view of jazz in 1950s
New York as any single label could hope to provide
(only Blue Note might hope to match it); they're an
essential experience for listeners new to jazz or
the period, while disc 4 may serve handily as
exalted party music.

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