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Fats Navarro
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- Born: September 24, 1923, Key West, FL
- Died: July 07, 1950, New York, NY
- Active: '40s, '50s
- Genres: Jazz
- Instrument: Trumpet
- Representative Albums: "Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron: The Complete Blue Note and Capitol Recordings," "The Fats Navarro Story," "Fat Girl: The Savoy Sessions"
- Representative Songs: "Hollerin' and Screamin'," "Move," "Goin' to Minton's"
Biography
One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time, Fats Navarro had a tragically brief career yet his influence is still being felt. His fat sound combined aspects of Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge, and Dizzy Gillespie, became the main inspiration for Clifford Brown, and through Brownie greatly affected the tones and styles of Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, and Woody Shaw.Navarro originally played piano and tenor before switching to trumpet. He started gigging with dance bands when he was 17, was with Andy Kirk during 1943-1944, and replaced Dizzy Gillespie with the Billy Eckstine big band during 1945-1946. During the next three years, Fats was second to only Dizzy among bop trumpeters. Navarro recorded with Kenny Clarke's Be Bop Boys, Coleman Hawkins, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Illinois Jacquet, and most significantly Tadd Dameron during 1946-1947. He had short stints with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Benny Goodman, continued working with Dameron, made classic recordings with Bud Powell (in a quintet with a young Sonny Rollins) and the Metronome All-Stars, and a 1950 Birdland appearance with Charlie Parker was privately recorded. However, Navarro was a heroin addict and that affliction certainly did not help him in what would be a fatal bout with tuberculosis that ended his life at age 26. He was well documented during the 1946-1949 period and most of his sessions are currently available on CD, but Fats Navarro (who would have turned 72 in 1995) could have done so much more. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
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| Birth name | Theodore Navarro |
| Also known as | Fats |
| Born | September 24, 1923 |
| Origin | Key West, Florida, U.S. |
| Died | July 7, 1950 (aged 26) |
| Genres | Jazz Bebop |
| Occupations | Trumpeter |
| Instruments | Trumpet |
Theodore "Fats" Navarro (September 24, 1923 – July 7, 1950) was an American jazz trumpet player. He was a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s. He is regarded by many to have been one of the first modern jazz trumpet improvisers and in his short career had a strong stylistic influence on many other players, most notably Clifford Brown.
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Life
Navarro was born in Key West, Florida, to Cuban-Black-Chinese parentage. He began playing piano at age six, but did not become serious about music until he began playing trumpet at age of thirteen. He was a childhood friend of drummer Al Dreares.[1] By the time he graduated from high school he wanted to be away from Key West and joined a dance band headed for the midwest.
Tiring of the road life after touring with many bands and gaining valuable experience, including influencing a young J. J. Johnson when they were together in Snookum Russell's territory band, Navarro settled in New York City in 1946, where his career took off. He met and played with, among others, Charlie Parker, one of the greatest musical innovators of modern jazz improvisation, but Navarro was in a position to demand a high salary, and did not join one of Parker's regular groups. He also developed a heroin addiction, which, coupled with tuberculosis and a weight problem (he was nicknamed "Fat Girl") led to a slow decline in his health and death at the age of twenty-six.
Among others, Fats Navarro played in the Andy Kirk, Billy Eckstine, Benny Goodman, and Lionel Hampton big bands, and participated in small group recording sessions with Kenny Clarke, Tadd Dameron, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Coleman Hawkins, Illinois Jacquet, Howard McGhee, and Bud Powell.
In Charles Mingus' somewhat counter-factual autobiography Beneath the Underdog, Navarro and Mingus strike up a deep friendship while touring together.
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- Prestige 1st Sessions, Vol. 1 (1949 Album by Various Artists)
- Timeless Fats Navarro (2003 Album by Fats Navarro)
- Fats Navarro with Tadd Dameron (1948 Album by Fats Navarro)
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- Sessions Live, Vol. 1 (1948 Album by Charlie Parker)
- The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1 [Expanded] (1949 Album by Bud Powell)
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- Goin' to Minton's (1999 Album by Fats Navarro)
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