The Prestige All Stars – Tenor Conclave (LP, Analogue Productions)

This unusual meeting of four tenor saxophone players from different quot;schoolsquot; was part of the Prestige Friday afternoon jam session series but far from a typical outing. The giant forebears of Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and Charlie Parker inform the backgrounds of the performers on this LP – Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, and John Coltrane – and other influences such as Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon, and the Sonnys (Stitt and Rollins) show up, too, depending on which of the four protagonists youre talking about.