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Bob Weinstock. Bob Weinstock (October 2, 1928 – January 14, 2006) was an American record producer best known for his label Prestige Records, established in 1949, which was responsible for many significant jazz recordings during his more than two decades operating the firm.
Jan 20, 2006 · Bob Weinstock, who released some of the seminal jazz recordings of the 1950s on his independent Prestige label, died Saturday of complications from diabetes at a hospice in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 77.
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Prestige Records. Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City which issued recordings in the mainstream, bop, and cool jazz idioms. [1] The company recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz musicians of the day, sometimes issuing them on subsidiary labels.
Oct 1, 1999 · Indeed, the Prestige story is largely Bob Weinstock's story. Like his father, an avid jazz fan, Weinstock (b. 1929) was running his own record store as a teenager and had even developed renown as a distributor of jazz records to collectors worldwide. He combed New York jazz clubs night after night and became well known to the musicians.
Prestige Records Story. Bob Weinstock, the collector-turned-producer who launched Prestige Records in 1949, had his finger on the pulse of modern jazz better than perhaps any other label executive of his time. During the Fifties, Prestige served as the catalyst for the careers of such previously underappreciated innovators as Miles Davis, Sonny ...
January 18, 2006. Sign in to view read count. Bob Weinstock, who founded the independent jazz record label Prestige in 1949 and ran it for more than 20 years, died on Saturday at a hospice in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 77 and lived in Deerfield Beach, Fla. He died of complications of diabetes, said his daughter-in-law, Barbara Weinstock.
