Record Label
Bob Weinstock founded Prestige in New York in 1949, building a catalog anchored by Miles Davis's early masterpieces and John Coltrane's formative recordings. The label's sessions were famously recorded quickly and cheaply — "blowing" sessions where musicians played extended pieces with minimal preparation — producing a raw, spontaneous sound that stands in contrast to the more studio-polished Blue Note recordings. The Prestige catalog remains one of the most sampled archives in jazz history.
Producer Notes
Prestige's blowing session recordings have a live-room looseness and extended improvisational sections that yield unusually long stretches of usable sample material. The Miles Davis quintet recordings from 1956 are among the most sampled jazz sessions ever committed to tape.
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