Fats Navarro

Fats Navarro

Infobox Musical artist
Name = Fats Navarro


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Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth_name = Theodore Navarro
Alias = Fats
Born = September 24 1923
Died = death date and age|1950|7|7|1923|09|24
Origin = Key West, Florida, U.S.
Instrument = Trumpet
Genre = Jazz Bebop
Occupation = Trumpeter
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Theodore "Fats" Navarro (24 September, 19237 July, 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.

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. By the time he graduated from high school he wanted to be away from Key West and joined a dance band headed for the mid west.

After touring with many bands and gaining valuable experience, and tiring of the road life, 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.

External links

* [http://csis.pace.edu/~varden/navarro/bio.html Biography of Fats Navarro]


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