Label: Prestige Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: Dream Dancing; Just One Of Those Things; You'd Be So Nice To Come Home; Love For Sale; All Of You; Night And Day; I Love Paris; I've Got You Under My Skin; Begin The Begine; I Love You; Easy To Love; Ev'ry Time I Say Goodbye; From This Moment On.

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John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings

By John Coltrane

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 1998

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John Coltrane: John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings

by Robert Spencer
December 1, 1998

John Coltrane: The Prestige Recordings chronicles the first great segment of the master's career. The sixteen discs in this mammoth set were all recorded between 1956 and 1958, when Coltrane was a member of Miles Davis' and then Thelonious Monk's ensembles. It's not the Complete Prestige Recordings because it doesn't include material Coltrane recorded with Davis, ...

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Hampton Hawes: Blues The Most

by Douglas Payne
November 1, 1998

Blues the Most gathers ten vintage blues tracks that West Coast pianist Hampton Hawes (1928-1977) recorded between 1955 and 1958 and adds one track from 1976. The 11 tunes are taken from six of Hawes's Contemporary LPs ( Hampton Hawes Trio, For Real!, This is Hampton Hawes: Vol. 2, Four!, Hampton Hawes At ...

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Red Garland: Red's Blues

by Douglas Payne
November 1, 1998

Pianist Red Garland (1923-84) could spin any of a million tunes into a smoky, slow after-hours blues. Churning 'em out one after the other with his melodic block-chord style, he could go set after set, leaving listeners wanting more. Red's Blues collects eleven such tracks from as many albums the pianist recorded for Prestige ...

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Bobby Timmons: Moanin' Blues

by Douglas Payne
November 1, 1998

Moanin' Blues isn't really a blues set as much as it's a collection of pianist Bobby Timmons's (1935-74) better known hits. “Moanin'," “Dat Dere" and “This Here" (all from 1960's This Here Is Bobby Timmons on Riverside) are here as well as three tracks from 1960's Soul Time and two tracks apiece from ...

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Ray Draper: The Ray Draper Quintet Featuring John Coltrane

Read "The Ray Draper Quintet Featuring John Coltrane" reviewed by Douglas Payne

by Douglas Payne
July 1, 1998

What makes this fairly typical bop outing unique is that the leader plays tuba. Ray Draper (1940-82) was only 17 when he recorded this quintet date in 1957, his third of three for Prestige, and, as much as possible, he makes the clunky instrument swing. As Ira Gitler's interesting notes point out, the tuba was a ...