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The Very Best Of Prestige Records (2009, Prestige) |
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Written by Don Berryman
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Wednesday, 01 April 2009 |
 Concord Music Group has launched a yearlong 60th anniversary celebration of Prestige Records with the release of The Very Best Of Prestige Records, a 2-CD set of classic tracks from the legendary label’s catalog featuring the iconic Jazz artists of the ‘50s and ‘60s; John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Eric Dolphy, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Kenny Burrell, Lee Konitz, Stanley Turrentine, Pat Martino and more. The new collection features 25 essential Prestige tracks, and is packed with classic photographs covering a 20-year span from 1949-1969, representing Prestige’s golden era, and what many consider to be the golden era of jazz. Begining with the title track from the first Prestige record, Lee Konitz's Subconscious-Lee from 1949, the collection proceeds chronologically covering releases from the classic Miles Davis' Quintet with Coltrane, tracks from Sonny Rollin's Tenor Madness and Saxophone Collosus, and continues into great soul-jazz albums from the '60s like Kirk's Work from Roland Kirk and Jack McDuff, Pat Martino's El Hombre and Charles Earland's Black Talk. While the serious jazz collector will already have many of these records, this is an excellent collection of jazz classics that could fill in the gaps, and could introduce the jazz novice to some great jazz history. There is no filler here - each track is a meaty jazz masterpiece. Listen to these sample tracks: Sonny Rollins with John Coltrane: "Tenor Madness", Eric Dolphy: "Les", Red Garland: "Hey Now", and Pat Martino "Waltz For Geri".
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