Fats Navarro
Fats Navarro
Top Songs
| 1 | Boppin' a Riff | ||
| 2 | Stop | ||
| 3 | Dextivity | ||
| 4 | Hollerin' And Screamin' | ||
| 5 | Sweet Georgia Brown, Part 3 |
Albums
Oct 2024 • 6 songs
Oct 2024 • 6 songs
Jan 2023 • 1 song
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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 b...