The Fabulous Fats Navarro

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The Fabulous Fats Navarro
Studio album by Fats Navarro

Publication
(s)

1956

Label (s) Blue Note , Capitol Records

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

22nd

occupation

production

Alfred Lion

Studio (s)

WOR Studios, New York City

chronology
Fats Navarro Memorial
(1947) 		The Fabulous Fats Navarro Bird & Fats - Live at Birdland
(1950)
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Fats Navarro, around 1947.
Photograph by William P. Gottlieb .

The Fabulous Fats Navarro is the title of two jazz albums by Fats Navarro . They contain material from several recording sessions that were recorded between 1947 and 1949 for the Blue Note Records label and released around 1956 as 12-inch LPs (BLP 1531 and 1532, as The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, respectively ) were. They are now available in their expanded form as The Complete Fats Navarro on Blue Note and Capitol (or as Fats Navarro & Tadd Dameron - The Complete Blue Note & Capitol Sessions , on Definitive Records).

The album

The sessions, which were originally split over two records, include the classical recordings of the trumpeter with the pianist, composer and band leader Tadd Dameron in September 1947 (“The Chase”), September 1948 (“Lady Bird”) and January 1949; In addition, the albums contain recordings of Navarro in a joint sextet with trumpeter Howard MGhee , which were made in October 1948 (“Double Talk”). The quintet recordings that were made under the band name Bud Powell & His Modernists , etc. were also included on the Navarro albums . a. with the young Sonny Rollins , recorded in August 1949. There are also (in the Definitive Edition) recordings of Tadd Dameron with Miles Davis and JJ Johnson . A curiosity is Fats Navarro's participation in the Benny Goodman Sextet with Wardell Gray on September 9, 1948 ("Stealin 'Apples").

Navarro and Dameron's first Blue Note session came about on September 26, 1947, when they recorded four compositions by the pianist and bandleader, "The Chase", "The Squirrel", "Our Delight" and "Dameronia". Contributors were u. a. Charlie Rouse and Ernie Henry . A year later, Navarro recorded the track “Stealin 'Apples” with Benny Goodman , the result of the swing clarinetist's brief flirtation with the then modern bebop . Shortly afterwards, on September 13, 1948, the trumpeter went back to the studio with Dameron's sextet to record some of his original compositions, such as “Jahbero”, “Lady Bird” and “Symphonette”. The bebop musicians Wardell Gray , Allen Eager , Curley Russell and Kenny Clarke played in Tadd Dameron's band . Singer Kenny Hagood also took part in “Symphonette” . In October 1948, the trumpeter formed the Fats Navarro / Howard McGhee Boptet , with Ernie Henry, Milt Jackson , who played both piano and vibraphone, and again Curly Russell and Kenny Clarke. The Navarro / McGhee compositions "The Skunk" and "Double Talk" as well as Navarro's "Boperation" were created. On January 18, 1949, Fats Navarro played in Dameron's extended orchestra, the u. a. Kai Winding , Sahib Shihab , Dexter Gordon , Cecil Payne, and again Russell and Clarke; they recorded "Sid's Delight" and "Cashbah". In April of that year, Dameron and his band recorded with Miles Davis and JJ Johnson . A quarter of a year later Navarro was a member of Bud Powell's only quintet, Bud Powell & His Modernists , which also included the young tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins , as well as bassist Tommy Potter and drummer Roy Haynes ; On August 9, 1949, they recorded the three Powell titles "Wail", "Dance of the Infidels" and "Bouncing with Bud", as well as Thelonious Monks " 52nd Street Theme ".

rating

Trumpeter Fats Navarro's first Blue Note recordings are among the highlights of bebop for jazz critics Richard Cook and Brian Morton; they call The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 1 one of the essential albums of modern jazz . They particularly highlight the excellent pieces from 1948 with trumpeter Howard McGhee, "the dueling choruses" play in titles such as "Double Talk" and thus form the highlights of the album. In addition to the solos of saxophonist Ernie Henry, it is also the contributions of vibraphonist Milt Jackson that make this session stand out.

Discographic note

The other tracks by Dameron with Miles Davis and JJ Johnson are included on the 2 CD edition of Blue Note: Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron: The Complete Blue Note and Capitol Recordings .

The titles

LP The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 1 (BLP 1503)

  • Tadd Dameron Sextet (September 26, 1947)
  1. "The Chase"
  2. "The Chase" (alt. Take)
  3. "The Squirrel"
  4. "The Squirrel" (alt. Take)
  5. "Our Delight"
  6. "Our Delight" (alt. Take)
  7. "Dameronia"
  8. "Dameronia" (alt. Take)
  • Bud Powell & His Modernists (August 8, 1949)
  1. "Wail" (alt. Master)
  2. "Bouncing with Bud" (alt. Master)
  • The McGhee / Navarro Boptet (November 10, 1948)
  1. "Double Talk"

LP: The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 2 (BLP 1504)

  • Tadd Dameron Septet (September 15, 1948)
  1. "Lady Bird"
  2. "Lady Bird" (alt. Master)
  3. "Jahbero"
  4. "Jahbero" (alt. Master)
  5. "Symphonette"
  6. "Symphonette" (alt. Master)
  • The McGhee / Navarro Boptet (November 10, 1948)
  1. "Double Talk" (alt. Master)
  2. "The Skunk" (alt.master)
  3. "Boperation"
  • Bud Powell & His Modernists (August 8, 1949)
  1. "Dance of the Infidels" (alt. Master)
  2. "Bouncing with Bud" (alt. Master)

All titles, except where indicated, were composed by Tadd Dameron.

Republication on CD

  1. "Our Delight" (Dameron) - Tadd Dameron Sextet & Fats Navarro September 26, 1947
  2. "Our Delight" (Dameron) - Tadd Dameron Sextet & Fats Navarro September 26, 1947
  3. "Squirrel" (Dameron) - Tadd Dameron Sextet & Fats Navarro September 26, 1947
  4. "Squirrel" (Dameron) - Tadd Dameron Sextet & Fats Navarro September 26, 1947
  5. "The Chase" (Dameron) - Tadd Dameron Sextet & Fats Navarro September 26, 1947
  6. "The Chase" (Dameron) - Tadd Dameron Sextet & Fats Navarro September 26, 1947
  7. "Wail" (Powell) - Bud Powell & Fats Navarro August 8, 1948
  8. "Bouncing with Bud" [Alternate Take] (Powell) - Bud Powell & Fats Navarro August 8, 1948
  9. "Double Talk" (Navarro / McGhee) - Fats Navarro / Howard McGhee Boptet October 11, 1948
  10. "Dameronia" (Dameron) - Tadd Dameron Sextet & Fats Navarro September 26, 1947
  11. "Dameronia" (Dameron) - Tadd Dameron Sextet & Fats Navarro September 26, 1947
  12. "Lady Bird" [Alternate Take] (Dameron) - Tadd Dameron Sextet & Fats Navarro
  13. "Lady Bird" (Dameron) - Tadd Dameron Sextet & Fats Navarro September 13, 1948
  14. "Jahbero" (Dameron) - Tadd Dameron Sextet & Fats Navarro September 13, 1948
  15. "Jahbero" (Dameron) - Tadd Dameron / Fats Navarro Sextet September 13, 1948
  16. "Symphonette" (Dameron) - Tadd Dameron Sextet & Fats Navarro September 13, 1948
  17. "Symphonette" (Dameron) - Tadd Dameron Sextet & Fats Navarro September 13, 1948
  18. "Double Talk" (Navarro / McGhee) - Fats Navarro / Howard McGhee sextet October 11, 1948
  19. "Bouncing with Bud" [Alternate Take] (Powell) - Bud Powell & Fats Navarro
  20. "Dance of the Infidels" [Alternate Take] (Powell) - Bud Powell & Fats Navarro
  21. "Skunk" (Navarro / McGhee) - Fats Navarro / Howard McGhee sextet October 11, 1948
  22. "Boperation" (Navarro) - Fats Navarro / Howard McGhee Sextet October 11, 1948
  • The edition Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron: The Complete Blue Note and Capitol Recordings also contains the following titles:

"Stealin 'Apples" by Benny Goodman Sextett & Fats Navarro (September 9, 1948), "52nd Street Theme" by Bud Powell & His Modernists with Fats Navarro (August 8, 1949), "Casbah", "John's Delight", " What's New ”,“ Heaven's Doors are Wide Open ”and“ Focus ”by Tadd Dameron & His Orchestra (January 18, 1949).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Stealin 'Apples” is not included on the original Blue Note LPs (BLP 1503/1504), but on the edition of Definitive Records .
  2. ↑ These titles are not included on the original Blue Note LPs (BLP 1503/1504), but on the edition of Definitive Records .
  3. ↑ cf. Cook / Morton.