Released 1951 Release date 1951 | Label Prestige Genre Jazz | |
 | ||
Recorded May 15, 1949September 20, 1949September 16, 1950January 17, 1951 Similar Miles Davis albums, Jazz albums | ||
Modern Jazz Trumpets (PRLP 113) is a various artists album focusing on bebop trumpeters, released in 1951 by Prestige Records in the new 10 inch LP format. The album features Miles Davis's first recordings for Prestige, as well as recordings by Fats Navarro, Dizzy Gillespie, and Kenny Dorham.
Contents
The original cover art was a simple text layout, similar to other very early Prestige LPs. Later pressings used the same photo of Davis also used on his first three 10"LPs.
Track listing
- Fats Navarro - Stop
- Fats Navarro - Go
- Fats Navarro - Wailing Wall
- Dizzy Gillespie - Thinking Of You
- Miles Davis - Morpheus (John Lewis) - 2:21
- Miles Davis - Whispering (M. Schonberger, R. Coburn, V. Rose) - 3:03
- Miles Davis - Down (Miles Davis) - 2:51
- Dizzy Gillespie - Nice Work If You Can Get It
- Kenny Dorham - Maxology
Personnel and recording dates
Maxology
Studio Technisonor, Paris, France, May 15, 1949
The Kenny Dorham track was also issued by Prestige on the following 78rpm single, credited to James Moody:
Stop, Go, Wailing Wall
NYC, September 20, 1949
The Fats Navarro tracks were also issued by Prestige on the following 78rpm singles:
Thinking of You, Nice Work If You Can Get It
NYC, September 16, 1950
The Dizzy Gillespie tracks were also issued by Prestige on the following 78rpm singles:
Morpheus, Whispering, Down
Apex Studios, New York City, January 17, 1951
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). Earlier in the same day, before his session at Prestige, Davis had also recorded a session as a sideman with Charlie Parker, for Verve Records, found on the Parker album Swedish Schnapps.
The Miles Davis tracks, including "Blue Room", were also released on two 78rpm singles. "Blue Room" would later be part of Davis' second 10"LP Blue Period (PRLP 140), and all four tracks would be re-released on the 12"LP Miles Davis and Horns (PRLP 7025), after the 10" format was discontinued.