Miles is contacted by Prestige Records founder Bob Weinstock, a young jazz fan who just two years previously started the independent record label New Jazz and soon renamed it. Miles’ relationship with Prestige yields his most important early career recordings, and chronicles his maturing sound as a soloist, and his emergence as a consistent recording artist. It also lands him in what becomes ground zero of jazz recordings in that period with the leading engineer of the time: Rudy Van Gelder’s home studio in Hackensack, NJ.