Artist Name
Fats Navarro

heart icon off (0 users)
Logo
transparent

Artist Image
artist thumb

Functions

transparent
Data Complete
percent bar 30%

Members
members icon 1 Male

Origin
flag Key West , USA

Genre
genre icon Jazz

Style
---

Mood
---

Born

born icon 1923

Active
calendar icon ---dead icon 1950

Cutout
transparent

heart icon Most Loved Tracks
3 users heart off Fats Navarro - Nostalgia
3 users heart off Fats Navarro - Nostalgia
3 users heart off Fats Navarro - Nostalgia
3 users heart off Fats Navarro - The Chase
3 users heart off Fats Navarro - The Chase


youtube icon Music Video Links
No Music Videos Found...



Artist Biography
Available in: gb icon flag icon
Theodore (Fats) Navarro (24 September 1923 - 6 July 1950) was an American jazz trumpet player. He was a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940's. 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 thirteen. By the time he graduated high school he wanted out of Key West and joined a dance band headed for the midwest. 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 playing really took off. He met and played with, among others, Charlie Parker, one of the greatest musical innovators of modern jazz improvisation. He also developed a heroin addiction, which, coupled with tuberculosis 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.
wiki icon

Wide Thumb
transparent

Clearart
transparent

Fanart
transparent icon
transparent icontransparent icon

Banner
transparent icon

User Comments

transparent iconNo comments yet..


Status
unlocked icon Unlocked
Last Edit by yoyoto
17th Feb 2016

Socials


Streaming


External Links
fanart.tv icon musicbrainz icon last.fm icon website icon unlocked iconamazon icon