Bob Weinstock dies

Bob Weinstock, the founder of the jazz record label Prestige, died on January 15, the New York Times reports. He was 77. In the two decades between 1949, when Weinstock founded Prestige, and 1972, when he sold it to Fantasy Records, the label produced important recordings by the Modern Jazz Quartet, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins, Eric Dolphy, and others - Playbill