Modern Jazz Trumpets 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, found on the Parker album "Swedish Schnapps". The Miles Davis tracks, including "Blue Room", were also released on two 78rpm singles. "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. Modern Jazz Trumpets Modern Jazz Trumpets is an album released by Prestige in 1951 with music by four
Jazz (TV series) central figures, "providing the narrative thread around which the stories of other major figures turn", among them Sidney Bechet, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and John Coltrane. A number of companion CDs were released simultaneously. Each two-hour episode of the ten episodes of "Jazz" covered a different era. "Jazz" was nominated for several awards, including multiple Emmy Awards. Among the critics with a positive response, Charles Paul Freund wrote that "Jazz" "is filled with rewards, many of them proffered unintentionally... Burns's documentary gifts are not visionary, analytical, nor even properly historical. Rather, he is a