This week’s theme: A Jazzy Christmas. Featured artists include Ray Charles, Betty Carter, Shelly Manne, Shorty Rogers, Teddy Edwards, Victor Feldman, Al Viola, Monty Budwig, Charlie Parker, Kenny Dorham, Max Roach, Al Haig, Vince Guaraldi, Diana Krall, Rosemary Clooney, Dan Axelrod, Dinah Washington, Ramsey Lewis, Isaiah J. Thompson, John Pizzarelli, Julian Lee, Philip Norris, Kyle Poole, Manhattan Transfer, Nancy Lamott.

This week’s theme: Welcoming in 2025, Part 2. Featured artists include John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Ornette Coleman, Ella Fitzgerald, Oliver Nelson, Stan Getz, Art Farmer, Benny Golson, Shorty Rogers, Art Pepper, Miles Davis, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims and many more.

record I own has a different cover.” And sure enough when I got home I looked on the shelf under Teddy Charles and there was Collaboration West, Prestige 7028 with a different cover. And the copy on my shelf was also a New York pressing with a New York address on the label and I thought two things: 1. The first thing I thought was, this is why collectors prefer Blue Notes over Prestige: Prestige was inconsistent with its packaging, it re-released items with new covers and new packages and made it quite confusing for collectors, whereas Blue Note was consistent and focused and clear. I will have more to say on this in a later post this week because I’ve been thinking a lot about it. 2. The second thing I though was “Rudolf.” Rudolf will know the answer to this, why this record has two covers. I am pretty sure I know which is the original cover, and that is the one with the orange and black design and artwork, but even of this I am not 100% sure. That one, with the orange and black artwork, was the one that I had owned, the one that was sitting on my shelf at home. The other one, with a photographic design cover, was the one that I purchased the other day for $75 at Infinity Records. So I am hoping Rudolf is reading this and will share his knowledge of Prestige and, if not, perhaps someone else out there will have the knowledge to enlighten us.