Modern Jazz Trumpets
1951 compilation album by Fats Navarro
Modern Jazz Trumpets is an album released by Prestige Records 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 for Prestige.
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.
Track listing
A side
Fats Navarro – "Stop" (Don Lanphere) – 4:03
Fats Navarro – "Go" (Lanphere) – 4:03
Fats Navarro – "Wailing Wall" (Lanphere) – 3:25
Dizzy Gillespie – "Thinking of You" (Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby) – 2:45
B side
Miles Davis – "Morpheus" (John Lewis) – 2:21
Miles Davis – "Whispering" (M. Schonberger, R. Coburn, V. Rose) – 3:03
Miles Davis – "Down" (Davis) – 2:51
Dizzy Gillespie – "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:45
Kenny Dorham – "Maxology" (Dorham) – 5:44
Personnel and recording dates
May 15, 1949 ("Maxology")
Kenny Dorham – trumpet
James Moody – tenor saxophone
Al Haig – piano
Tommy Potter – bass
Max Roach – drums
Studio Technisonor, Paris, France
The Kenny Dorham track was also issued by Prestige on the following 78 rpm single, credited to James Moody:
Prestige 702: James Moody - Maxology, Part 1&2
September 20, 1949 ("Stop," "Go" & "Wailing Wall")
Fats Navarro – trumpet
Don Lanphere – tenor saxophone
Al Haig – piano
Tommy Potter – bass
Max Roach – drums
NYC
The Fats Navarro tracks were also issued by Prestige on the following 78 rpm singles:
Prestige 812: Fats Navarro - Stop / Go
Prestige 819: Fats Navarro - Wailing Wall / Infatuation
September 16, 1950 ("Thinking of You" & "Nice Work If You Can Get It")
Dizzy Gillespie – trumpet
Jimmy Heath – alto saxophone
Jimmy Oliver – tenor saxophone
Milt Jackson - piano
Percy Heath – bass
Joe Harris – drums
NYC
The Dizzy Gillespie tracks were also issued by Prestige on the following 78 rpm singles:
Prestige 728: Sonny Stitt - To Think You've Chosen Me / Dizzy Gillespie - Thinking Of You
Prestige 736: Dizzy Gillespie - She's Gone Again / Nice Work If You Can Get It
January 17, 1951 ("Morpheus," "Whispering" & "Down")
Miles Davis – trumpet
Bennie Green – trombone
Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
John Lewis – piano
Percy Heath – bass
Roy Haynes – drums
Apex Studios, New York City
Two takes of the tune "Blue Room" were also recorded at this session.
This was Miles Davis' first recording session for Prestige Records, for whom he would record many albums over the next five years, as well as his first credited appearance as leader on an LP album. Davis had previously recorded one session under his own name, with Charlie Parker's band, for Savoy Records in 1947 (available on First Miles), and three sessions with his nonet for Capitol Records over 1949-1950 (Birth of the Cool). It was also his first session with the young Sonny Rollins. After the session was completed, they would record one more track entitled "I Know" under Rollins' name, with Davis on piano. The Rollins track is available on the album Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet (PRLP 7029).
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