Modern Jazz Trumpets Modern Jazz Trumpets Modern Jazz Trumpets is an album released by Prestige in 1951 with music by four jazz trumpeters: Fats Navarro, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Kenny Dorham. The album was released on the 10" LP format and includes the first recordings by Davis. 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. A side B side Maxology Studio Technisonor, Paris, France, May 15, 1949 The Kenny Dorham track was also issued by Prestige on the following 78rpm single,
Miles Davis tried to persuade him to join the Tiny Bradshaw band, which was passing through town, but his mother insisted he finish high school before going on tour. He said later, "I didn't talk to her for two weeks. And I didn't go with the band either." In January 1944, Davis finished high school and graduated in absentia in June. During the next month, his girlfriend gave birth to a daughter, Cheryl. In July 1944, Billy Eckstine visited St. Louis with a band that included Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, and Charlie Parker. Trumpeter Buddy Anderson was too sick to perform, so