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,
Jazz at Massey Hall Jazz at Massey Hall Jazz at Massey Hall is a live jazz album featuring a performance by "The Quintet" given on 15 May 1953 at Massey Hall in Toronto. The quintet was composed of several leading 'modern' players of the day: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach. It was the only time that the five men recorded together as a unit, and it was the last recorded meeting of Parker and Gillespie. The first pianist considered by the organizers was Lennie Tristano, but he suggested Powell as a more appropriate match for the other musicians.