Trapeze Catalogue Home / Shop / Trapeze Catalogue / Fats Navarro Collection 1943-1950 (2CD) Fats Navarro Collection 1943-1950 (2CD) Fats Navarro Collection 1943-1950 (2CD) £12.00 Stock Status: In Stock Add to your Wish List Information Specifications Despite his tragically brief career, cut short as it was by tuberculosis, exacerbated by heroin addiction, at the age of 26, bebop trumpeter Fats Navarro built an extraordinarily high profile and reputation during the few short years he was recording and performing, and through his involvement in some landmark recordings was a substantial influence on his peers and those who came after. Having cut his teeth playing with the orchestras of Andy Kirk and Billy Eckstine, the latter a renowned staging post for future bebop stars, he came to real prominence after settling in New York in 1946, working with some of the most important established and emerging talents of the day. His style was distinctively different from the other pioneering bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, and he was a marvellously fluent and original improviser. This 39-track 2-CD collection, which includes some extended live performances towards the end, begins with examples of his early recordings with the orchestras mentioned, and includes sessions and performances with a host of luminaries, including Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, Bud Powell, Milt Jackson, Kenny Clarke, Illinois Jacquet, Tadd Dameron, Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray, Sonny Rollins and Benny Goodman. The final live recordings were made just a week before his death in 1950. Its a hugely entertaining snapshot of his all-too-brief, but stellar career. Disc 1 Track Title Artist 1 Avalon Andy Kirk & His Orchestra 2 New Orleans Jump Andy Kirk & His Orchestra 3 Air Mail Special Billy Eckstine And His Orchestra 4 Opus X Billy Eckstine And His Orchestra 5 Doggin' Man Blues Andy Kirk & His Orchestra 6 Epistrophy Kenny Clarke And His 52nd Steet Boys 7 Ooh Bop Sh'bam Kenny Clarke And His 52nd Steet Boys 8 Boppin In A Riff Fats Navarro/Gil Fuller's Modernists 9 Fat Boy Parts 1 & 2 Fats Navarro/Gil Fuller's Modernists 10 Bean And The Boys Coleman Hawkins And His Orchestra 11 Spinal Eddie Davis & His Beboppers : 12 Big Dog Illinois Jacquet And His Orchestra 13 Fat Girl Fats Navarro And His Thin Men 14 Goin' To Minton's Fats Navarro And His Thin Men 15 Dameronia The Tadd Dameron Sextet 16 The Chase The Tadd Dameron Sextet 17 The Tadd Walk Tadd Dameron And His Band 18 Ko-Ko Barry Ulanov And His All Star Metronome Jazzmen 19 Nostalgia Dexter Gordon And His Boys 20 Barry's Bop Fats Navarro Quintette 21 Half Step Down, Please Fats Navarro Quintette 22 Index Coleman Hawkins And His All Stars Disc 2 Track Title Artist 1 Good Bait Tadd Dameron Quintet 2 Anthropology Tadd Dameron Quintet 3 Stealin' Apples Benny Goodman Septet 4 Lady Bird The Tadd Dameron Septet 5 Jahbero The Tadd Dameron Septet 6 Boperation Howard McGhee/Fats Navarro Boptet 7 The Skunk Howard McGhee/Fats Navarro Boptet 8 Our Delight The Tadd Dameron Septet 9 Move Earl Coleman with the Fats Navarro Sextet 10 Overtime Metronome All Stars 11 Victory Ball Metronome All Stars 12 The Things We Did Last Summer Jazz At The Philharmonic 13 Bouncing With Bud Bud Powell's Modernists 14 Wail Bud Powell's Modernists 15 Street Beat Charlie Parker Quintet 16 Ornithology Charlie Parker Quintet 17 52nd Street Theme Charlie Parker Quintet EAN: 824046314521 Discs: 2 Release: October 2015 Artist: Fats Navarro Brand: Acrobat Product Code: ADDCD3145 Weight: 0.12kg
