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
Jazz Review holding company, which changed ownership, absorbed "Jazz Review" around April 2009. It was revived as "Jazz Journal" at the end of April. Direct Music was no longer involved in the publication. A later California-based magazine also titled "The Jazz Review", edited by Ken Borgers and Bill Wasserzieher, appeared in 1991-1992, with cover stories on Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Charlie Haden and other artists. Jazz Review Jazz Review was a Scottish jazz magazine, founded in 1998 by a former editor of "The Wire" and jazz writer Richard Cook and Roger Spence of the talent management agency Direct Music Limited of Edinburgh,