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Collection: Hard Again / I'm Ready / King Bee
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The Prestige Records Story
: :Along with Blue Note, Verve, and Riverside, Prestige was one of the most significant independent jazz labels of the '50s and '60s. It was especially important in the '50s, recording the decade's greatest figures--including Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane--long before the major labels would beckon. This four-CD set traces the label from its founding by Bob Weinstock in 1949 until 1971 when it was sold to Fantasy. The first two CDs in the collection take the music up to 1960, and they brim with superb tracks that ...
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The Jazz Collector Edition: Nat King Cole Trio Recordings
: :Along with Blue Note, Verve, and Riverside, Prestige was one of the most significant independent jazz labels of the '50s and '60s. It was especially important in the '50s, recording the decade's greatest figures--including Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane--long before the major labels would beckon. This four-CD set traces the label from its founding by Bob Weinstock in 1949 until 1971 when it was sold to Fantasy. The first two CDs in the collection take the music up to 1960, and they brim with superb tracks that ...
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Essential and Rare Blues
: :Along with Blue Note, Verve, and Riverside, Prestige was one of the most significant independent jazz labels of the '50s and '60s. It was especially important in the '50s, recording the decade's greatest figures--including Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane--long before the major labels would beckon. This four-CD set traces the label from its founding by Bob Weinstock in 1949 until 1971 when it was sold to Fantasy. The first two CDs in the collection take the music up to 1960, and they brim with superb tracks that ...
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The Blues Box
: :Along with Blue Note, Verve, and Riverside, Prestige was one of the most significant independent jazz labels of the '50s and '60s. It was especially important in the '50s, recording the decade's greatest figures--including Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane--long before the major labels would beckon. This four-CD set traces the label from its founding by Bob Weinstock in 1949 until 1971 when it was sold to Fantasy. The first two CDs in the collection take the music up to 1960, and they brim with superb tracks that ...
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The Savoy Story, Vol. 1: Jazz
: :Along with Blue Note, Verve, and Riverside, Prestige was one of the most significant independent jazz labels of the '50s and '60s. It was especially important in the '50s, recording the decade's greatest figures--including Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, and John Coltrane--long before the major labels would beckon. This four-CD set traces the label from its founding by Bob Weinstock in 1949 until 1971 when it was sold to Fantasy. The first two CDs in the collection take the music up to 1960, and they brim with superb tracks that ...
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Chess Rhythm & Roll
: :Compiled with the same care and attention to detail as the landmark Chess Blues box set, this set presents the rhythm & blues side of Chess Records and, in many ways, is the more entertaining of the two. Ninety-nine tracks cover the label's astonishing breadth of jump blues combos, vocal groups, and rock & roll pioneers. You can't help but be overwhelmed by all this great music. The work of giants like Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley sounds even more exciting in context with underrated gems from the likes of the ...
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The Devil's Music
:Album Description:Classic blues from the Red Lightnin' vaults. Discs one & two comprise the long-lost soundtrack LPs to 'The Devil's Music', a highly acclaimed 1976 BBC documentary series. Disc three reissues a rare live LP recorded at a 1963 European blues festival. The first time on CD for any of this material. Three papersleeves in a cardboard box with a lift off lid. 49 tracks plus an eight page sleeve with notes & photos. Indigo. 2003.
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Crescent City Soul: The Sound of New Orleans
:Album Description:Classic blues from the Red Lightnin' vaults. Discs one & two comprise the long-lost soundtrack LPs to 'The Devil's Music', a highly acclaimed 1976 BBC documentary series. Disc three reissues a rare live LP recorded at a 1963 European blues festival. The first time on CD for any of this material. Three papersleeves in a cardboard box with a lift off lid. 49 tracks plus an eight page sleeve with notes & photos. Indigo. 2003.
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The Complete Dinah Washington on Mercury, Vol. 1 (1946-1949)
:Album Description:Classic blues from the Red Lightnin' vaults. Discs one & two comprise the long-lost soundtrack LPs to 'The Devil's Music', a highly acclaimed 1976 BBC documentary series. Disc three reissues a rare live LP recorded at a 1963 European blues festival. The first time on CD for any of this material. Three papersleeves in a cardboard box with a lift off lid. 49 tracks plus an eight page sleeve with notes & photos. Indigo. 2003.
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