Theodore "Fats" Navarro was an American jazz trumpet player and a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s. A native of Key West,Florida,he toured with big bands before achieving fame as a bebop trumpeter in New York. Following a series of studio sessions with leading bebop figures including Tadd Dameron,Bud Powell,and Kenny Clarke,he became ill with tuberculosis and died at the age of 26. Despite the short duration of his career,he had a strong stylistic influence on trumpet players who rose to fame in later decades,including Clifford Brown and Lee Morgan.
Walkin' is a Miles Davis compilation album released in March 1957 by Prestige Records. The album compiles material previously released on two 10 inch LPs in 1954 (Miles Davis All-Star Sextet and Side One of Miles Davis Quintet,dropping "I'll Remember April" from Side Two and replacing it with the previously unreleased "Love Me or Leave Me" recorded at the same session. Here credited to the "Miles Davis All-Stars",the songs were recorded on April 3 and 29,1954,by two slightly different groups led by Davis. Both sessions were recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's home studio.
Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants is an album by Miles Davis,released on Prestige Records in 1959. Most of the material comes from a session on December 24,1954,featuring Thelonious Monk and Milt Jackson,and had been previously released in the discontinued ten inch LP format. "Swing Spring" was originally released on the 10"LP Miles Davis All Stars,Volume 1,and "Bemsha Swing" and "The Man I Love" had been previously released on Volume 2. "'Round Midnight" is newly released,and comes from the same sessions by Davis's new quintet in 1956 which resulted in Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet and three other albums to fulfill Davis's contract with Prestige.
Bags' Groove is a jazz album by Miles Davis,released in 1957 by Prestige,compiling material from two 10" LPs recorded in 1954,plus two alternative takes.
"Airegin" is a jazz standard composed by American jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins in 1954. Rollins chose the name "Airegin",as it is an anadrome of "Nigeria".
Max Roach + 4 is an LP recorded by jazz drummer Max Roach,which featured Kenny Dorham on trumpet,Sonny Rollins on tenor sax,Ray Bryant on piano,and George Morrow on bass. It was the first album Roach recorded after his collaborators,trumpeter Clifford Brown and pianist Richie Powell,died in a car crash in June 1956.
Conception is a compilation album issued by Prestige Records in 1956 as PRLP 7013,featuring Miles Davis on a number of tracks. The album,compiled from earlier 10 inch LPs,or as 78rpm singles,also features musicians such as Lee Konitz,Sonny Rollins,Stan Getz,Gerry Mulligan,and Zoot Sims. The cover was designed by Bob Parent. In particular,the entirety of the 10"LP Lee Konitz:The New Sounds makes up all of side 1.
Blue Period is the third studio album by jazz musician Miles Davis. It was released in 1953 as a 10" LP,his second released by Prestige Records,recorded over the course of two 1951 recording sessions at New York's Apex Studio.
Dig is an album by Miles Davis on Prestige Records,catalogue number 7012. It features tracks from a 1951 session at Apex Studios. First released in the 12-inch LP format in 1956,The original album was later released as Diggin' with the catalogue number PR 7281 and a different cover. Dig was reissued as a compact disc with additional tracks.
Miles Davis and Horns is a compilation album by the American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. Released in 1956,by Prestige Records,it compiles material from albums previously released by Prestige in the discontinued 10 inch LP format. The fifth,sixth,and eighth tracks were originally issued on the various artists album Modern Jazz Trumpets,and had also been issued as 78rpm singles. Tracks 1–4 first appeared on Miles Davis Plays The Compositions Of Al Cohn. Track 3 was also previously released as the B-side of the "Morpheus" single. Track 7 was originally on Blue Period.
Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet is a 1956 compilation album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins,featuring his earliest recordings for the Prestige label under his leadership,including four tracks performed by Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet,eight tracks where Kenny Drew and Art Blakey replace Lewis,Jackson,and Clarke,and one track with Miles Davis on piano.
Moving Out is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins. This was his second for Prestige Records,featuring Kenny Dorham,Elmo Hope,Percy Heath,and Art Blakey,and one track with Thelonious Monk,Tommy Potter,and Art Taylor. The first 4 tracks had originally appeared on as the 10-inch LP Sonny Rollins Quintet Featuring Kenny Dorham,and the final track had appeared on the 10-inch LP Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk.
Monk is a 1956 compilation album by jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk,featuring material recorded from 1953 to 1954 for the Prestige label and performed by Monk with two quintets,one featuring Julius Watkins,Sonny Rollins,Percy Heath,and Willie Jones and one featuring Ray Copeland,Frank Foster,Curly Russell,and Art Blakey. It was originally titled both Thelonious Monk [on its 1956 cover] and Thelonious Monk Quintets [on its labels]. Over the following decade,it was also re-released as Wee See and The Golden Monk The most common cover art,is 1958 revision,designed by Reid Miles.
This article presents the discography of the jazz saxophonist and band leader Sonny Rollins.
Sonny Boy is a 1961 album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins comprising four tracks from his final recordings for the Prestige label,three of which were originally released on Tour de Force,along with an unissued performance from the session that produced Rollins Plays for Bird.
James Theodore Powell was an American jazz saxophonist who played alto sax.
The New Sounds is the debut solo studio album by the American jazz musician Miles Davis. Released in late 1951 as a 10-inch LP,it is his first album as a bandleader and his first full album for Prestige Records. Davis had previously contributed three tracks to the Prestige compilation LP Modern Jazz Trumpets and appeared as a sideman on the 10-inch LP Lee Konitz:The New Sounds.
The Compositions of Al Cohn is a 10" LP by jazz musician Miles Davis,recorded on February 19,1953 and released later that year on Prestige,his third album as leader for the label,and fourth altogether,following 1952's Young Man with a Horn for Blue Note.
Miles Davis Quintet is a 10 inch LP album by Miles Davis,released in 1954 by Prestige Records. The album title is not to be confused with either of Davis' later Great Quintets. The three tracks on this LP,and one other,were recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's Studio,Hackensack,New Jersey,on April 3,1954. This was the first session for Prestige Davis recorded at Gelder's home studio,as he would all his remaining sessions for the label.
Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins is a 1954 10 inch LP album by Miles Davis,released by Prestige Records. The four tracks on this LP,along with a second take of "But Not For Me",were recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's Studio,Hackensack,New Jersey,on June 29,1954.
