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The Prestige All Stars

Recorded	Oct 25 & Dec 6, 1957
Label	Prestige
Catalog	8202
Released	1957
Personnel	10 credited players
Discogs	master 1010926

The record

Cecil Payne and Pepper Adams give this Prestige date a rare two-baritone front line, trading weight with trombone and trumpet over a rhythm section split between Bill Evans and Tommy Flanagan. The roster alone makes this one-day summit worth pulling from the stacks.

Session personnel

Cecil Payne — baritone saxophone
Pepper Adams — baritone saxophone
Doug Watkins — bass
Elvin Jones — drums
Louis Hayes — drums
Bill Evans — piano
Tommy Flanagan — piano
Frank Rehak — trombone
Jimmy Cleveland — trombone
Idrees Sulieman — trumpet

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

A short list. The earliest pressing on file here is the 1958 US Prestige 8202 in mono, and it is the only original-era copy we hold. After that the trail jumps two decades: a 1979 Japanese promo reissue, SMJ-6605(M), then 1983 brought both the US Original Jazz Classics OJC-062 and a French Prestige 68399. The OJC is the practical copy; nothing audiophile is listed.

1958	Prestige · 8202 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file
1983	Original Jazz Classics · OJC-062 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue OJC
1993	Prestige · VICJ-23084 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Mono · RVG stamp
1958	Prestige · 8202 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1979	Prestige — MONO
1979	Prestige · SMJ-6605(M) — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Reissue, Mono
1983	Original Jazz Classics · OJC-062 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1983	Prestige · 68399 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
1996	Original Jazz Classics · OJCCD-062-2 — CD, Reissue, Remastered
2013	Prestige · UCCO-5352 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Mono, SHM-CD