Comments on: A Piece of Silver, A Tuba and Two Guitars

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:05:15 +0000

I’ve been able to confirm that the NJ yellow label was used up to 7319 Yusef Lateef – Eastern Sounds but not 100% sure if it extended to 7320.

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:27:44 +0000

Jan/Aaron: the last yellow label Prestige in my collection is Coltrane’s Black Pearls 7316. Aaron may be right, I really don’t know.

By: Jan

Jan — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 10:10:47 +0000

Thank you Aaron

By: Aaron

Aaron — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:35:55 +0000

Not Rudolf but I believe the last NJ yellow label was 7320.

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 14:27:30 +0000

Rudolf the last yellow NJ label was PRLP number ….?

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:58:40 +0000

BigBear: Prestige changed the adress with 7141. So all the pre-7141 catalogue numbers had the NYC upon their initial release. Only a minority was re-issued in a second pressing, i.e. the albums that were most in demand (Rollins, Miles, MJQ, Coltrane), like 7079, 7109, 7076, 7057, 7006, 7007, 7014, 7038. The first re-issue would be on the yellow/black stars label, but NJ adress. Further re-issues would be on the blue trident label with the NJ adress (7129, 7094, 7057, 7043).
Variations do exist: sleeve with NYC adress, but labels NJ.Or one side NYC label,other side NJ.
In my opinion yellow NJ issues are very collectible, and often to be got at decent prices.

By: BigBear

BigBear — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:57:18 +0000

Rudolf:

I vaguely recall that you mentioned something about certain early 7100 Prestige’s with W50 NYC addresses being relatively rare. This makes sense as the NJ labels came out in 7141 or so (so most 2nd or 3rd pressings of those orginally issued just prior to the switch would be NJ not W50). Are there some of those that are more rare than others / deserve a special effort to find? Thanks in advance!

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:11:33 +0000

One of my favourite Jackie Mclean records is Prestige 7078 introducing Ray Draper. Grat tuba playing by Ray on this one. Recently got an nm copy of the original NY pressing.