Guide to Prestige Records (Jazz Label Guide No. 6; Episode 362) 

Yet another fabulously informative and succinct video, Alan. Nobody on the net is doing such detailed presentations without meandering or losing focus. Man you are on fire! Dig Jazz! Cheers (with a single malt) from Oz🥃

Brilliant! Thank you, this is an exceptional dive into the label!

I love the Tiny Grimes on Swingville! Also there are a couple great two-fers double albums from the early 60's on Blue Trident that are superb...if they are recycled vinyl free. All with RVG stamps.

Another great entry in your catalogue mate - one of the best channels on here. Jazz History. Vinyl. Cardigans. Fire!

Thank you so much. Very educational. Adam.

Outstanding video. The first of yours I've found. Seeing the content of your channel, subscribed right away. Looking forward to exploring. Thank you for the excellent work here.

Really like these. Was great to see a new one pop into my recommendations this morning.

Excellent stuff Allan very informative. Most of my Prestige collection are the 80's OJC's which I'm more than happy with plus a few French "Carrere" distributed Prestige reissues that find there way to used stores in the UK and are pretty much on par with OJC's. Keep up the good work.

Great episode mate, learnt so much ✌🏻big shoutout to the cardigan 😂

T H A N K S. This might be your most informative video yet - and you must have put a lot of time an research into it. Most appreciated and I learned a lot. Oh - and I love things like “Nothing should be electronicaly reprocessed - not your food and certainly not your 1950’s Prestige jazz” 😅 Thanks again Allan 👍

I really appreciate your channel and especially this episode

These label guides are fantastic thank you so much 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Great video again, Weinstock sounds like a very interesting if slightly sketchy guy. I've only got six Prestige records, I would probably have more if not for the fact so many feature organ, which is generally a dealbreaker for me. It seems my favorites all feature Tommy Flanagan on piano (Boss Tenor, Flute Soufflé, an OJC Kenny Burrell self-titled), so now the first thing I look for on a Prestige I find in a crate is if there's piano and who's playing. Thankfully the credits are easy to find/read

Another excellent video , nicely done .

Thank you for doing some more informative "crate digging." Blue Note has become a kind of fetish object that gets all the attention from "collectors" these days, but I sometimes get the impression that it's become the jazz label for people who only know about Blue Note. It's almost become generic for a certain kind of attitude, an indisputably great label and a worthy entry point, but -- like, say, the recent reissues of the Beatles' "Red" and "Blue" albums -- it's only one facet of the music of its time, a sample of some highlights, and by no means the whole story. Having recently read hefty biographies of Monk and Sonny Rollins, I found myself revisiting my Prestige records with an enhanced level of appreciation -- for the music, if not for the circumstances under which it was recorded. Also: I kinda like the Prestige spiral logo on the cover of some my Booker Ervin and Shirley Scott/Stanley Turrentine records -- like the one on your copy of "Dakar." I don't know the story behind that one. (Speaking of graphics: Red Garland's "Groovy" has one of my favorite album covers. I have a framed copy on the wall near my living room turntable. Because it's groovy. I also made a t-shirt out of it -- and another of the artwork for Miles' "Cookin'." That's as deep into fashion as I get.)

Great job. Must have taken a lot of research on your part.

ERRATA: - Weinstock's address as a teenager is actually on W 83rd, not "W 8rd", wherever that is. - The fireworks label *predates* Van Gelder's involvement, rather than following. - The example of the Konitz/Tristano record shown, NJLP 101, is a 1952 Prestige reissue (with a blue label) of the original New Jazz yellow label release. This is the original: www.discogs.com/release/7445898-Lee-Konitz-Quintet-Lennie-Tristano-Quintet-Lee-Konitz-Quintet-Lennie-Tristano-Quintet. - @ 00:12:39, I mis-spoke; of course, Miles actually signed for *Columbia* in the mid 1950s.

Would have been nice to have added the "two-fers" that have a lot of the Prestige recordings on them. I have noted that some have RVG, and some have not, what would be your recommendations on these?

Prestige did a poor job promoting the three albums Thelonious Monk recorded for them. The trio album, the quintet album and the one with Sonny Rollins. Not taking anything away from the music. All are really excellent but overlooked because they were sandwiched between the Blue Notes and the Riversides. They stand up very well today in his overall career.

Weinstock really milked those last Miles records he did, making sure to capitalise on Miles’s new-found fame on Columbia. In fact, Cookin’ came out in July 1957, AFTER Miles’s first Columbia record had already come out. Relaxin’ came out in spring of 1958, Workin’ came out as late as January 1960 (after Kind of Blue), and Steamin’ in July or August 1961 - the latter 5 years after it had been recorded.

Jazz Organ is an oxymoron