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The Prestige Legacy Vol. 1: The High Priests

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Miles Davis- Down/ Sonny-Rollins- Mambo Bounce/ Thelonious Monk- Little Rootie Tootie/ Thelonious Monk- Bemsha Swing/ Miles Davis- Compulsion/ Miles Davis- When Lights Are Low/ Thelonious Monk- Let

Various: The Prestige Legacy Vol. 1: The High Priests

by Derek Taylor
February 1, 2001

This appropriately titled disc, the first in what will presumably be a continuing series of retrospective compilations, gathers seminal work by the four bop Brahmins of the Prestige label- Rollins, Davis, Coltrane and Monk. Each one of sixteen tracks is a cornerstone classic in jazz history, but curiously the uniformly stellar nature of the material points ...