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,
John Garcia Gensel named full-time Minister to the Jazz Community; initially Jazz vespers were held at various locations including Central Synagogue. In 1968, jazz ministry had become fully established in Saint Peter's Lutheran Church, on Lexington Avenue in New York City. Jazz musicians including Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Billy Strayhorn attended and played regularly at Jazz vespers. In 1975 Documentary Educational Resources published a portrait of Rev. Gensel which was filmed over the course of 5 years; the documentary records Duke Ellington's last concert and funeral. At Saint Peter's Lutheran Church Rev. Gensel also founded