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Fats Navarro

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American jazz trumpeter (1923-1950)

United StatesMusiciansLived 1923 to 1950 · aged 26
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Theodore "Fats" Navarro 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.

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Navarro with Charlie Rouse (left), Ernie Henry (top), and Tadd Dameron (center), c. 1947Navarro with Charlie Rouse (left), Ernie Henry (top), and Tadd Dameron (center), c. 1947

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Theodore "Fats" Navarro 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.

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United States
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1923 to 1950 · aged 26
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23 languages

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