Dizzy Gillespie Gillespie favored mouthpieces made by Al Cass. In December 1986 Gillespie gave the National Museum of American History his 1972 King "Silver Flair" trumpet with a Cass mouthpiece. In April 1995, Gillespie's Martin trumpet was auctioned at Christie's in New York City with instruments used by Coleman Hawkins, Jimi Hendrix, and Elvis Presley. An image of Gillespie's trumpet was selected for the cover of the auction program. The battered instrument was sold to Manhattan builder Jeffery Brown for $63,000, the proceeds benefiting jazz musicians with cancer. He was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. The next year, at the Kennedy
Joma Music Group, Inc. Joma Music Group, Inc. Joma Music Group is a music publishing company and record label founded in 2008. The Joma Music Publishing division represents a large catalog of songs written by the lyricist Ned Washington, including the standards "My Foolish Heart", "Stella By Starlight", "Rawhide", "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" and dozens of other songs that have been performed by legendary artists such as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, David Bowie, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Barbra Streisand, Bing Crosby, Duke Ellington, Dizzie Gillespie, and k.d. lang. In, addition, Joma Music publishes over 300 songs from the 1950s-1960s vintage catalog by songwriters