''Modern Jazz Trumpets'' is an album released by Prestige Records in 1951 with music by four jazz trumpeters:

Fats Navarro Theodore "Fats" Navarro (September 24, 1923 – July 6, 1950) was an American jazz trumpet player. He was a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s. He had a strong stylistic influence on many other players, including Cl ...

, Dizzy Gillespie,

Miles Davis Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musi ...

and Kenny Dorham. The album was released on the 10" LP format and includes the first recordings by Davis for Prestige. Cover art was a text layout similar to other early albums on Prestige. Later pressings used the same photo of Davis also used on his first three 10" LPs.

Track listing

A side # Fats Navarro - Stop (

Don Lanphere Donald Gale Lanphere (June 26, 1928 – October 9, 2003) was an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist, known for his 1940s and 1950s work, and recordings with Fats Navarro (in 1948), Woody Herman (1949), Claude Thornhill, Sonny Dunham, Bil ...

) – 4:03 # Fats Navarro - Go (

) – 4:03 # Fats Navarro - Wailing Wall (

) – 3:25 # Dizzy Gillespie - Thinking of You (

Bert Kalmar Bert Kalmar (February 10, 1884 – September 18, 1947) was an American songwriter, who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. He was also a screenwriter. Biography Kalmar, a native of New York City, left school at an early ag ...

Harry Ruby Harry Rubenstein (January 27, 1895 – February 23, 1974), known professionally as Harry Ruby, was an American actor, pianist, composer, songwriter and screenwriter, who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.John Lewis John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for from 1987 until his death in 2020. He participated in the 1960 Nashville ...

) – 2:21 # Miles Davis - Whispering (M. Schonberger, R. Coburn, V. Rose) – 3:03 # Miles Davis - Down (

) – 2:51 # Dizzy Gillespie - Nice Work If You Can Get It (

George Gershwin George Gershwin (; born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned popular, jazz and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions ' ...

, Ira Gershwin) – 2:45 # Kenny Dorham - Maxology ( Kenny Dorham) – 5:44

Personnel and recording dates

''Maxology'' * Kenny Dorham –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

* James Moody –

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

Al Haig Alan Warren Haig (July 19, 1922 – November 16, 1982) was an American jazz pianist, best known as one of the pioneers of bebop. Biography Haig was born in Newark, New Jersey and raised in nearby Nutley. In 1940, he majored in piano at Obe ...

–

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

Tommy Potter Charles Thomas Potter (September 21, 1918 – March 1, 1988) was an American jazz double bass player, best known for having been a member of Charlie Parker's "classic quintet", with Miles Davis, between 1947 and 1950. Born in Philadelphia, Penn ...

– bass *

Max Roach Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. He work ...

– drums Studio Technisonor, Paris, France, May 15, 1949 The Kenny Dorham track was also issued by Prestige on the following 78rpm single, credited to James Moody: * Prestige 702: James Moody - Maxology, Part 1&2 ''Stop, Go, Wailing Wall'' *

– trumpet *

– tenor saxophone *

– piano * Tommy Potter – bass * Max Roach – drums NYC, September 20, 1949 The Fats Navarro tracks were also issued by Prestige on the following 78rpm singles: * Prestige 812: Fats Navarro - Stop / Go * Prestige 819: Fats Navarro - Wailing Wall / Infatuation ''Thinking of You, Nice Work If You Can Get It'' * Dizzy Gillespie – trumpet *

Jimmy Heath James Edward Heath (October 25, 1926 – January 19, 2020), nicknamed Little Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and big band leader. He was the brother of bassist Percy Heath and drummer Albert Heath. Biography Heath w ...

– alto saxophone * Jimmy Oliver – tenor saxophone * Milt Jackson - piano *

Percy Heath Percy Heath (April 30, 1923 – April 28, 2005) was an American jazz bassist, brother of saxophonist Jimmy Heath and drummer Albert Heath, with whom he formed the Heath Brothers in 1975. Heath played with the Modern Jazz Quartet throughout ...

– bass * Joe Harris – drums NYC, September 16, 1950 The Dizzy Gillespie tracks were also issued by Prestige on the following 78rpm singles: * Prestige 728: Sonny Stitt - To Think You've Chosen Me / Dizzy Gillespie - Thinking Of You * Prestige 736: Dizzy Gillespie - She's Gone Again / Nice Work If You Can Get It ''Morpheus, Whispering, Down'' *

– trumpet *

Bennie Green Bennie Green (April 16, 1923 – March 23, 1977) was an American jazz trombonist. Born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, Green worked in the orchestras of Earl Hines and Charlie Ventura, and recorded as bandleader through the 1950s and ...

–

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate ...

* Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone *

John Lewis John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for from 1987 until his death in 2020. He participated in the 1960 Nashville ...

– piano * Percy Heath – bass *

Roy Haynes Roy Owen Haynes (born March 13, 1925) is an American jazz drummer. He is among the most recorded drummers in jazz. In a career lasting over 80 years, he has played swing, bebop, jazz fusion, avant-garde jazz and is considered a pioneer of jaz ...

– drums

Apex Studios Apex Studios was a recording studio in Manhattan, New York City. It had a high reputation for recording jazz. It was located in the Beaux Arts Steinway building. The owner was Bob Scheuing. When Al Schmitt started in 1950, the two engineers were Fre ...

New York City New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un ...

, January 17, 1951 Two takes of the tune "Blue Room" were also recorded at this session. This was Miles Davis' first recording session for Prestige Records, for whom he would record many albums over the next five years, as well as his first credited appearance as leader on an LP album. Davis had previously recorded one session under his own name, with

Charlie Parker Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist, band leader and composer. Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop, a form ...

's band, for Savoy Records in 1947 (available on ''

First Miles ''First Miles'' is a compilation album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released on July 12, 1990 by Savoy Records. The album includes tracks from Davis's first recording session, backing singer Rubberlegs Williams on April 24, 1945, and th ...

''), and three sessions with his nonet for Capitol Records over 1949-1950 (''

Birth of the Cool ''Birth of the Cool'' is a compilation album by American jazz trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis, released in February 1957 by Capitol Records. It compiles eleven tracks recorded by Davis's nonet for the label over the course of three sessio ...

''). It was also his first session with the young Sonny Rollins. After the session was completed, they would record one more track entitled "I Know" under Rollins' name, with Davis on piano. The Rollins track is available on the album ''

Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet ''Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet'' (also released as ''Sonny & the Stars'') is a 1956 compilation album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, featuring his earliest recordings for the Prestige label under his leadership, including four t ...

'' (PRLP 7029). Earlier in the same day, before his session at Prestige, Davis had also recorded a session as a sideman with Charlie Parker, for

Verve Records Verve Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group (UMG). Founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, the label is home to the world's largest jazz catalogue, which includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simon ...

, found on the Parker album '' Swedish Schnapps''. The Miles Davis tracks, including "Blue Room", were also released on two 78rpm singles.Prestige 78rpm discography
the Jazz Discography Project, accessed June 4, 2014 "Blue Room" would later be part of Davis' second 10"LP '' Blue Period'' (PRLP 140), and all four tracks would be re-released on the 12"LP '' Miles Davis and Horns'' (PRLP 7025), after the 10" format was discontinued. * Prestige 734: Miles Davis - Morpheus / Blue Room * Prestige 742: Miles Davis - Down / Whispering

References

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