Prestige – PRLP 7076Rec. Dates : April 3, 1954, April 29, 1954 Trumpet : Miles DavisAlto Sax : Davey SchildkrautBass : Percy HeathDrums : Kenny ClarkePiano : Horace SilverTenor Sax : Lucky ThompsonTrombone : J.J. Johnson Listening to Prestige : #107Stream this Album Billboard : 04/06/1957Jazz Special Merit Album Walkin’, the elongated blues, has been Davis‘ best-known disk performance in the last few years,…
Prestige – PRLP 7075Rec. Date : November 13, 1953, September 22, 1954, October 25, 1954 Piano : Thelonious MonkTenor Sax : Sonny RollinsBass : Percy Heath, Tommy PotterDrums : Willie Jones, Art Blakey, Art TaylorFrench Horn : Julius Watkins Listening to Prestige : #97, #121, #123Stream this Album Billboard : 04/06/1957Score of 76 Both of these names have more market appeal today than they did…
Prestige – PRLP 7074Rec. Date : September 7, 1956 Tenor Sax : Al Cohn, John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, Zoot SimsBass : Paul ChambersDrums : Art TaylorPiano : Red Garland Listening to Prestige : #187Stream this Album Billboard : 04/27/1957Score of 83 A strong packaging idea well executed for what should prove a very good seller in all jazz shops. All four tenors…
Prestige – PRLP 7073Rec. Date : December 28, 1956 Bass : Doug WatkinsDrums : Art TaylorFlute, Tenor Sax : Jerome RichardsonGuitar : Kenny BurrellPiano : Mal WaldronTenor Sax : Hank MobleyTrumpet : Donald Byrd Listening to Prestige : #199Album is Not Streamable Billboard : 03/30/1957Score of 71 Line-up consists entirely of stars of the new generation, and value of this set will have…
Prestige – PRLP 7072Rec. Dates : January 8, 1954, April 12, 1954, September 29, 1954, January 28, 1955 Alto Sax, Tenor Sax : James MoodyBaritone Sax : Pee Wee MooreBass : John LathanDrums : Joe Harris, Clarence JohnsonPiano : Sadik Hakim, Jimmy BoydTrombone : William ShepherdTrumpet : Dave BurnsVocals : Eddie Jefferson Listening to Prestige : #103, #108, #122, #136Album is Not Streamable Liner Notes by Ira Gitler…
Prestige – PRLP 7071Rec. Dates : May 7, 1953, July 30, 1954 Piano : Billy TaylorBass : Earl MayDrums : Charlie Smith, Percy BricePercussion : Chico Guerrero, Jose Mangual, Ubaldo Nieto Listening to Prestige : #85, #116Album is Not Streamable Liner Notes by Ira Gitler Billy Taylor has, as Leonard Feather tells it in the Encyclopedia of Jazz, “won great respect among fellow musicians as…
Prestige – PRLP 7070Rec. Date : November 30, 1956 Piano : Tadd DameronTenor Sax : John ColtraneBass : John SimmonsDrums : Philly Joe Jones Listening to Prestige : #195Stream this Album Billboard : 03/09/1957Score of 72 The last time Dameron appeared on records was his Fontainebleau LP on Prestige, and it is good to hear him again, playing with the same sensitivity and intelligent…
Prestige – PRLP 7069Rec. Date : circa 1956 Moondog : MoondogTap Dance : Ray Malone“and others” Listening to Prestige : #200Stream this Album AudioCharles A. Robertson : March, 1957 As an individualist in a world of conformists, Moondog is often a lonely figure as he plods the street of Manhattan. With this second collection of the unexpected ways in…
Prestige – PRLP 7068Rec. Date : August 31, 1956 Alto Sax : Jackie McLeanBass : Paul ChambersDrums : Philly Joe JonesPiano : Mal WaldronTrumpet : Bill Hardman Listening to Prestige : #186Stream this Album Billboard : 02/23/1957Score of 76 Bill Hardman, a talented trumpet man who has been with Jackie McLean both in the Charlie Mingus Workshop group and in the “Messengers,” gets his first…
Prestige – PRLP 7067Rec. Dates : December, 1952, February 28, 1955 Piano : Hampton Hawes, Freddie ReddBass : Clarence Jones, John OreDrums : Lawrence Marable, Ron JeffersonVibes : Larry Bunker Listening to Prestige : #140Stream this Album Liner Notes by Ira Gitler Undoubtedly the greatest of the modern pianists has been Bud Powell who despite illness has managed to cram into a relatively short period…
