What about Bob?

Bob Weinstock, who released some of the seminal jazz recordings of the 1950s on his independent Prestige label, died Jan. 14 of complications of diabetes at a hospice in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 77.

Smitten by jazz at an early age, Mr. Weinstock had parlayed a family loan into a privately owned record company by the time he was 20. Mr. Weinstock recorded many of the most important musicians of the modern jazz era, including Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, and the Modern Jazz Quartet.

Mr. Weinstock produced more than 1,000 recordings in 23 years at the helm of Prestige before he sold the company in 1972. After retiring to Florida, Mt. Weinstock made a brief return to record producing with a small record label in the 1990s. In a 1995 interview with the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Mr. Weinstock recalled that when he was 8, he and his father bought a stack of jazz records for 9 cents apiece.