Prestige Records: The Album Cover Collection

Nice hardcover book in a 10” x 10” format - bonus CD sampler.

Prestige is a great label, unfortunately usually mentioned in comparison to Blue Note. Both labels used a common set of jazz musicians and RVG as the engineer.

I heard that the main difference was that Blue Note paid for rehearsals. That and Alfred Lions high standards. Lots of good sessions were never released.

The book has some excellent covers, most of the ‘collectors' usual suspects. I'd have appreciated more of the rare, hard to find covers.

Prestige had a habit of re-issuing the same albums repackaged - so there are multiple covers and a large sampling to try and cover.

Some of the covers could be photographed in sharper focus (digital artifacts?)

It's a lovely book and companion to the Graham Marsh/Glyn Callingham series.
Not an equal to those 3 books, but a good companion - for a collector, graphic designer or completist.