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 Coltrane played together occasionally in the late 1940s. He was a member of groups led by Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Bostic, and Johnny Hodges in the early to mid-1950s. In the summer of 1955, Coltrane was freelancing in Philadelphia while studying with guitarist Dennis Sandole when he received a call from Davis. The trumpeter, whose success during the late forties had been followed by several years of decline in activity and reputation, due in part to his struggles with heroin, was again active and about to form a quintet. Coltrane was with this edition of the Davis band (known as the "First