.jpg) Portrait of Fats Navarro, New York, N.Y. Image by William P. Gottlieb, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed Public domain |
Fats NavarroFats Navarro Fats Navarro American jazz trumpeter (1923–1950) Theodore "Fats" Navarro (September 24, 1923 – July 7, 1950)[1] was an American jazz trumpet player and a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s. A native of Key West, Florida, he toured with big bands before achieving fame as a bebop trumpeter in New York. Following a series of studio sessions with leading bebop figures including Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Kenny Clarke, he became ill with tuberculosis and died at the age of 26. Despite the short duration of his career, he had a strong stylistic influence on trumpet players who rose to fame in later decades, including Miles Davis, Clifford Brown and Lee Morgan. Quick… (Source: Wikipedia)
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Albums
Good Bait
Fats Bud-Klook-Sonny-Kinney (1955)
Fats Navarro Memorial Album Number One (Alternate Cover) (1955)
The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol 2 (1956)
In The Beginning Bebop With Brew Moore (1957)
Nostalgia (1958)
