Clifford Benjamin Brown was an American jazz trumpeter,pianist and composer. He died at the age of 25 in a car crash,leaving behind four years' worth of recordings. His compositions "Sandu","Joy Spring",and "Daahoud" have become jazz standards. Brown won the DownBeat magazine Critics' Poll for New Star of the Year in 1954;he was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1972.
Sonny Stitt was an American jazz saxophonist of the bebop/hard bop idiom. Known for his warm tone,he was one of the best-documented saxophonists of his generation,recording more than 100 albums. He was nicknamed the "Lone Wolf" by jazz critic Dan Morgenstern because of his tendency to rarely work with the same musicians for long despite his relentless touring and devotion to the craft. Stitt was sometimes viewed as a Charlie Parker mimic,especially earlier in his career,but gradually came to develop his own sound and style,particularly when performing on tenor saxophone and even occasionally baritone saxophone.
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.
Miles Davis and Milt Jackson Quintet/Sextet,also known as Quintet/Sextet is a studio album by the trumpeter Miles Davis and vibraphonist Milt Jackson released by Prestige Records in August 1956. It was recorded on August 5,1955. Credited to "Miles Davis and Milt Jackson",this was an "all-star" session,and did not feature any of the members of Davis's working group of that time. Alto saxophonist Jackie McLean appears on his own compositions “Dr. Jackle”and “Minor Apprehension”.
Bob Weinstock was an American record producer best known for his label Prestige Records,established in 1949,which was responsible for many significant jazz recordings during his more than two decades operating the firm.
"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".
The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Thelonious Monk is a box set by American jazz pianist Thelonious Monk compiling his recordings for Blue Note first released as a limited four-LP box set on Mosaic Records in 1983 before being issued as a four-CD box set by Blue Note for the first time in 1994 as The Complete Blue Note Recordings.
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.
Thelonious Monk Trio is an album by American jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk. The album features his earliest recordings for Prestige Records,performing as a soloist with a rhythm section of bassist Gary Mapp,either Art Blakey or Max Roach on drums,and one track with Percy Heath replacing Mapp. It also contains the earliest recorded versions of the jazz standards "Blue Monk" and "Bemsha Swing".
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.
Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins is a compilation album by jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk and saxophonist Sonny Rollins released in 1956 by Prestige Records. The tracks on it were recorded in three sessions between 1953 and 1954. While this is its original title,and its most consistent title in its digital re-releases,it was also released on Prestige as Work! and The Genius Of Thelonious Monk,with alternative covers.
This article presents the discography of the jazz saxophonist and band leader Sonny Rollins.
The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions is a four compact disc box set of recordings by the Miles Davis Quintet released in 2006 by the Concord Music Group. It collates on three discs the entire set of recordings that made up the Prestige Records albums released from 1956 through 1961 —Miles,Cookin',Relaxin',Workin',and Steamin'. The track "'Round Midnight" was released on the album Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants. The fourth disc contains live material from a television broadcast and in jazz club settings. It peaked at #15 on the Billboard jazz album chart,and was reissued on December 2,2016,in a smaller compact disc brick packaging.
The following is the discography of American jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk (1917–1982).
Thelonious Monk Quintet is a 10" LP by American jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk,performed by the Thelonious Monk Quintet. It was originally released in 1954 as the third of five 10" LP albums by Monk for Prestige. Its contents were later re-released in sequence as side 1 of the 12-inch album Monk. It has rarely been re-released in its original format,although it was included in a boxed set by Craft Records in a limited edition in 2017.
Thelonious Monk Plays (with Percy Heath and Art Blakey) is a 10" LP by American jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk,performed by the Thelonious Monk Trio. It was originally released in 1954 as the fourth of five 10" albums by Monk for Prestige (PrLP 189). Its contents were later split between the two 12-inch albums Thelonious Monk Trio (side B of this record) and Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (side A of this record). It has rarely been re-released in its original format,although it was included in a boxed set by Craft Records in a limited edition in 2017.
Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk [Quartet] is a 10" LP by American jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk,performed by a quartet featuring Rollins and Monk. It was originally released in 1954 as the fifth of five 10" LPs featuring Monk for Prestige. Its contents were later split between the two 12-inch albums Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins and the Sonny Rollins album Moving Out. It has rarely been re-released in its original format,although it was included in a boxed set by Craft Records in a limited edition in 2017.
Thelonious is a 10" LP by American jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk,performed by the Thelonious Monk Trio. It was originally released in 1953 as the first of five 10" LP studio albums by Monk for Prestige,and was later expanded into the 12-inch album Thelonious Monk Trio with the addition of two non-chronological later tracks. It has rarely been re-released in its original format,although it was included in a boxed set by Craft Records in a limited edition in 2017.
Chronicle:The Complete Prestige Recordings 1951–1956 is a box set of 8 CDs with compiled recordings of the American jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis,made in sessions between 1951 and 1956 for Prestige Records. It was issued in 1988. The box set contains a 64-page illustrated booklet that includes rare photographs,full discographical details,and an analysis of each session by Dan Morgenstern,Director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. It is a re-release of the 12 vinyl discs records on 8 CDs in 1980.
