Prestige Box

[danasgoodstuff]

I have the library's copy of the Prestige box out and I must say they did a nice job. Good, representative music, coherent but not ovely lengthy notes with lots of short quotes from the various guys that worked there with only a couple of swipes at Blue Note who they obviously considered the main competition. It's the first time I've been at all clear on who worked there when. A better job than the overly long Blue Note box, IMHO. Or maybe I just don't know or care as much about Prestige. What say you?

[ghost of miles]

This is an excellent label box-set that I’ve been revisiting over the weekend. I picked up a number of sets like these—the Contemporary, Riverside and Debut boxes—when they were getting bargain-priced on their way to OOP status. The booklet is very well-done, with lots of background info on Prestige and the artists it recorded. Highly recommended if you run into a cheaply-priced copy.