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I love that Pharoah album 😍

What about that Curtis Fuller Prestige record with Hawes?

Interesting.  For the case of the Pablo Box, I guess that it might have been too difficult for Eric Miller to admit that his "European Tour" box contained some music that wasn't even recorded in Europe.   

Re- Bob Weinstock, the founder of Prestige: Digging right now into the "Gerry Mulligan Quartet" volume from the Oxford Studies in Recorded Jazz" mentioned recently by Joe Bip in the "Reading Now ..." thread, and the below paragraph (in the context of the Gerry Mulligan recording debut at Prestige in 1951) had me smiling:  Given the stylistic catalog of Prestige from (almost) Day One, it should be be interesting to see if and how these personal preferences of Bob Weinstock - as part of his personality - are evoked in this forthcoming book and to learn how Weinstock really got into (or got to grips with) "bebop and beyond" from his personal point of departure.  BTW, Vol. 1 (1949-.53) from the earlier "Listening To Prestige" series arrived today too, and what I can say right away is that these books should be entertaining reading that will certainly open up new perspectives for most readers. But do NOT expect the discussions of the sessions to be reviews in the usual sense of the word but rather very personal listening impressions for everyone to stack up against his own experiences to get an interesting look at a different angle. This should open up some new listening perspectives.  After randomly flipping open a few pages, I am in fact wondering about some of the author's angles and perspectives. Re- the 26 January 1950 session by Sonny Stitt and Bud Powell (Strike Up The Band/I Want To Be Happy/Taking A Chance On Love/Fine And Dany), the author says: "These are songs I wouldn't have thought of as jazz standards, especially "Strike up The Band" and "I Want To Be Happy". Hmm ... Sonny Stitt may have been a sort of trailblazer for adopting these songs into the bebop vocabulary, but Rust's Discography (that runs up to 1942) has 3 issued recordings listed (by Red Nichols plus assorted semi-jazz dance bands) for "Strike Up The Band", as well as about 8 entries for "I Want To Be Happy". (I did not check the other two tunes) So ...? At any rate all four have been established jazz standards across the stylistic board for many decades.  Re- the 27 February 1950 session by Al Haig (Liza /Strs Fell On Alabama/Stairway To The Stars/Opus Caprice), the text says: "I was only able to find 'Liza'. So plenty of leisure to give it several listens (...) And me ... listening to 'Liza' one more time, and wishing I had the rest of this session." Huh??? The entire session was reissued on the double album "First Sessions 1949/50" in 1979 (P-24081, a compilation that does look like mandatory listening for anyone covering this period of Prestige in detail, doesn't it?). I did not check for other reissues of that session as I had bought this set (a U.S. pressing) locally not very long after it came out and have often spun it through the years. Another copy of this twofer (UK pressing this time) has been gracing the "second copies" corner of my record shelves for years, so copies are around out there (Discogs has more than 50 listed ). This blind spot really is rather difficult to understand, particularly if you are all out to do an in-depth session-by-session survey of that period.  Anyway ... I'm really looking forward to browsing this book and hopping from session to session while listening to the respective music during the holidays.  And Merry Christmas to everyone!