Various Artists - Prestige Stereo Numbered Set

Analogue Productions Prestige Stereo Set

25 Prestige reissue titles to delight and astound jazz buffs!

Rare preowned subscription 25 title 200-gram numbered LP set!

One of the last collections of its kind! Sold as a complete set only!

Here it is. One of the last of the original 25 title Prestige Stereo Sets from Analogue Productions. These are the most audiophile-sounding Rudy Van Gelder recordings ever made with the Pestige Stereo Series. All are 200-gram, numbered titles, mastered AAA from the original analog master tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio, and pressed at our own Quality Record Pressings plant.

And there's more: Original tip-on jacket facsimiles with the original thick cardboard stock, from Stoughton Printing. The sound, the pressing quality, everything surpasses the original Prestige LPs.

So, let's jump in the time machine and head back to the 1950s and ‘60s, when jazz was king and the world was awash in the sounds of these masterpieces.Founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock, Prestige Records would become one of the most renowned jazz labels of all time. Weinstock began the label after he'd opened a record store next door to New York City's Metropole Jazz Club. The musicians who performed at Metropole began frequenting Weistock's store, and he soon got the idea to start recording them. He first called the label New Jazz but changed the name to Prestige the following year.

The legendary roster of Prestige musicians rivals that of any jazz label before or since and includes Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Eric Dolphy, John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, Jackie McLean, Sonny Rollins, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Tommy Flanagan. Weinstock is famous - or infamous — for refusing to pay his artists for their rehearsal time. He instead captured a more live, unplanned sort of groove, different than other jazz labels of the day. Certainly, history has appreciated hearing artists that would go on to become legends playing in a looser, off-the-cuff manner.

Rudy Van Gelder handled recording engineering duties for most of the Prestige run, another fact that has positioned Prestige so well in the history of jazz and collectible records.

Albums Included

Willie Dixon - Willie's Blues

Tracks

1. Nervous
2. Good Understanding
3. That's My Baby
4. Slim's Thing
5. That's All I Want Baby
6. Don't You Tell Nobody
7. Youth To You
8. Sittin' And Cryin' The Blues
9. Built For Comfort
10. I Got A Razor
11. Go Easy
12. Move Me

Lighnin' Hopkins - Lightnin'

Tracks

1. Automobile Blues
2. You Better Watch Yourself
3. Mean Old Frisco
4. Shinin' Moon
5. Come Back Baby
6. Thinkin' 'Bout An Old Friend
7. The Walkin' Blues
8. Back To New Orleans
9. Katie Mae
10. Down There Baby

Lighnin' Hopkins - Goin' Away

Tracks

1.  Wake Up Old Lady
2.  Don't Embarrass Me, Baby
3.  Stranger Here
4.  Little Sister's Boogie
5.  Goin' Away
6.  You Better Stop Her
7.  Business You'r Doin'
8.  I'm Wit' It

Arnett Cobb - Ballads By Cobb

Tracks

1.  Willow Weep for Me
2.  Hurry Home
3.  P.S. I Love You
4.  Blue And Sentimental
5.  Darn that Dream
6.  Why Try to Change Me Now
7.  Your Wonderful Love

Gene Ammons - Nice An' Cool

Tracks

1. Till There Was You
2. Answer Me, My Love
3. Willow Weep For Me
4. Little Girl Blue
5. Something I Dreamed Last Night
6. Something Wonderful
7. I Remember You
8. Someone To Watch Over Me

Gene Ammons - Soulful Moods Of Gene Ammons

Tracks

1. Two Different Worlds
2. But Beautiful
3. Skylark
4. Three Little Words
5. The Street Of Dreams
6. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
7. Under A Blanket Of Blue
8. Three Little Words
9.  I'm Glad There Is You

Kenny Burrell with Coleman Hawkins - Bluesy Burrell

Tracks

1.  Tres Palabras
2.  No More
3.  Guilty
4.  Montono Blues
5.  I Thought About You
6.  Out of this World
7.  It's Getting Dark

Gil Evans - Gil Evans and Ten

Tracks

1. Remember
2. Ella Speed
3. Big Stuff
4. Nobody's Heart
5. Just One Of Those Things
6. If You Could See Me Now
7. Jambangle

Arnett Cobb - Party Time

Tracks

1.  When My Dreamboat Comes Home
2.  Lonesome Road
3.  Blues in the Closet
4.  Party Time
5.  Flying Home
6.  The Slow Poke
7.  Cocktails for Two

Gene Ammons - Boss Tenor

Tracks

1. Hittin' The Jug
2. Close Your Eyes
3. My Romance
4. Canadian Sunset
5. Blue Ammons
6. Confirmation
7. Savoy

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Johnny Griffin - The Teno Scene

Tracks

1. Light And Lovely
2. Straight, No Chaser
3. Woody'n You
4. Bingo Domingo
5. I'll Remember April

Jimmy Forrest - Out Of The Forrest

Tracks

1.  Bolo Blues
2.  I Cried for You
3.  I've Got a Right to Cry
4.  This Can't Be Love
5.  By the River Sainte Marie
6.  Yesterdays
7.  Crash Program
8.  That's All

John Coltrane - Standard Coltrane

Tracks

1.  Don't Take Your Love From Me
2.  I'll Get By
3.  Spring Is Here
4.  Invitation

Booker Ervin - Exultation

Tracks

1. Mooche Mooche
2.  Black And Blue
3.  Tune In
4.  Just In Time (Short Take)
5.  Just In Time (Long Take)
6.  No Land's Man (Short Take)
7.  No Land's Man (Long Take)
8.  Mour

Booker Ervin - The Freedom Book

Tracks

1. A Lunar Tune
2.  Cry Me Not
3.  Grant's Stand
4.  A Day to Mourn
5.  Al's In

Jimmy Witherspoon - Evenin' Blues

Tracks

1.  Money's Gettin' Cheaper
2.  Grab Me a Freight
3.  Don't Let Go
4.  I've Been Treated Wrong
5.  Evenin'
6.  Cane River
7.  Baby, How Long
8.  Good Rockin'
9.  Kansas City
10.  Drinking Beer

Booker Ervin - The Song Book

Tracks

1. The Lamp is Low
2.  Come Sunday
3.  All the Things you Are
4.  Just Friends
5.  Yesterdays
6.  Our Love is Here to Stay

Lightnin' Hopkins - Soul Blues

Tracks

1. I'm Going to Build Me a Heaven of My Own
2. My Babe
3. Too Many Drivers
4. I'm A Crawling Black Snake
5. Rocky Mountain Blues
6. I Mean Goodbye
7. The Howling Wolf
8. Black Ghost Blues
9. Darling, Do You Remember Me?
10. Lonesome Graveyard

Benny Golson - Groovin' With Golson

Tracks

1. My Blues House
2. Drumboogie
3. I Didn't Know What Time it Was
4. The Stroller
5. Yesterdays

Kenny Dorham - Quiet Kenny

Tracks

1.  Lotus Blossom
2.  My Ideal
3.  Blue Friday
4.  Alone Together
5.  Blue Spring Shuffle
6.  I Had The Craziest Dream
7.  Old Folks
8.  Mack the Knife

Eric Dolphy - Outward Bound

Tracks

1. G.W.
2. On Green Dolphin Street
3. Les
4. 245
5. Glad to Be Unhappy
6. Miss Toni

Oliver Nelson - Screamin' The Blues

Tracks

1.  Screamin' the Blues
2.  March On, March On
3.  The Drive
4.  The Meetin'
5.  Three Seconds
6.  Alto-itis

Eric Dolphy - Out There

Tracks

1. Out There
2. Serene
3. The Baron
4. Eclipse
5. 17 West
6. Sketch Of Melba
7. Feathers

Eric Dolphy - At The FiveSpot, Vol. 1

Tracks

1. Fire Waltz
2. Bee Vamp
3. The Prophet
4. Bee Vamp (alternate take)

Eric Dolphy - Far Cry

Tracks

1.  Mrs. Parker of K. C. (Bird's Mother)
2.  Ode to Charlie Parker
3.  Far Cry
4.  Miss Ann
5.  Left Alone
6.  Tenderly
7.  It's Magic

 

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