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April 2, 2021 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Prestige

Just one recommendation of sorts for April 2021's Bandcamp Friday - but it's a big one: 61 great albums from Prestige Records are now available to stream and download on the service. Founded by Bob Weinstock in 1949, Prestige was an early home for some of the mid-century's most revolutionary jazz figures, including Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz and Thelonious Monk. The label's output, much of it impeccably recorded by engineer Rudy Van Gelder, was a haven as hard bop

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Funk, Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Art Blakey, Bernard Purdie, Gil Evans, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Patrice Rushen, Red Garland, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk

October 7, 2019 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

AndrewHill BlackFire

Back in February, we reported on Blue Note Records' Tone Poet Reissue Series, a new initiative by label president Don Was and audiophile jazz expert Joe Harley that presents detailed vinyl reissues of Blue Note classics and overlooked titles from the label's 80-year history.  Each title is an all-analog affair, mastered from the original master tapes by Kevin Gray and pressed onto 180-gram vinyl at RTI, then housed in deluxe gatefold packaging. The first titles - Wayne Shorter's Etcetera and

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Andrew Hill, Dexter Gordon, Donald Byrd, Gil Evans, Grant Green, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Lou Donaldson, Stanley Turrentine

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