The Fats Navarro Story
by Fats Navarro
- Type: Compilation
- Released: 2001-01-01
- Label: Proper Records
- Country: United States
- Length: 5:06:12
- Community rating: 4.06/5 from 1 rating
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'The Fats Navarro Story' surveys the trumpeter's brief career, from his work with Billy Eckstine's band through his bebop sessions with Tadd Dameron and Bud Powell. Navarro's warm tone and Clifford Brown-influencing style are documented up to his death at twenty-six.
Genres
Descriptors: ensemble, improvisation, acoustic, rhythmic, retro
Tracklist
- Air Mail Special (3:30)
- Don't Blame Me (3:03)
- Opus X (2:33)
- Love Me Or Leave Me (4:20)
- Long, Long Journey (3:09)
- Tell Me Pretty Baby (3:01)
- Second Balcony Jump (2:56)
- Without A Song (2:55)
- Epistrophy (2:57)
- 52nd Street Theme (2:52)
- Oo-Bop Sh'bam (3:06)
- Rue Chaptal (2:58)
- Boppin' A Riff (5:35)
- Fat Boy (5:44)
- Everything's Cool (5:53)
- Webb City (5:39)
- Calling Dr. Jazz (2:50)
- Fracture (2:53)
- Maternity (3:03)
- Stealin' Trash (2:49)
- I Mean You (3:05)
- Bean And The Boys (2:43)
- Just A Mystery (2:16)
- Red Pepper (3:05)
- Spinal (2:32)
- Hollerin' And Screamin' (2:41)
- Fat Girl (2:22)
- Ice Freezes Red (2:42)
- Eb Pob (2:25)
- Goin' To Mintons (2:53)
- Jivin' With Jack The Bell Boy (2:53)
- High On An Open Mike (8:01)
- Sweet Georgia Brown (7:26)
- The Chase (2:45)
- The Squirrel (3:00)
- Our Delight (2:59)
- Dameronia (3:01)
- A Bebop Carol (3:01)
- The Tadd Walk (2:54)
- Gone With The Wind (3:13)
- That Someone Must Be On (3:05)
- Nostalgia (2:46)
- Barry's Bop (2:41)
- Bebop Romp (2:38)
- Fats Blows (2:52)
- Half Step Down Please (3:04)
- Jumpin' Jane (3:10)
- Dextrose (2:50)
- Index (3:05)
- Dextivity (3:02)
- Good Bait (No.1) (5:48)
- Good Bait (No.2) (4:56)
- Anthropology (3:41)
- Lady Be Good (3:07)
- Symphonette (4:07)
- The Tadd Walk (4:31)
- The Squirrel (4:02)
- Dameronia (5:14)
- Our Delight (4:03)
- Eb-Pob (5:58)
- Jahbero (2:55)
- Lady Bird (2:52)
- Symphonette (3:08)
- I Think I'll Go Away (3:17)
- Stealin' Apples (3:09)
- The Skunk (3:03)
- Boperation (3:08)
- Double Talk (5:34)
- Guilty (3:03)
- Yardbird Suite (2:33)
- A Stranger In Town (3:02)
- As Time Goes By (3:06)
- Move (2:37)
- Move (2:34)
- Overtime (4:33)
- Sid's Delight (2:55)
- Casbah (3:00)
- Bouncing With Bud (3:03)
- Wail (3:06)
- Dance Of The Infidels (2:53)
- 52nd Street Theme (2:50)
- Wailing Wall (3:44)
- Go (3:30)
- Infatuation (3:35)
- Stop (4:07)
- Night In Tunisia (5:39)
- Dizzy Atmosphere (6:53)
Credits
- Fats Navarro - primary artist, trumpet, written-by
- Budd Johnson - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
- Charlie Parker - alto saxophone, written-by
- Sonny Stitt - alto saxophone, written-by
- Gil Fuller - arranged by, written-by
- Pete Rugolo - arranged by, conductor, written-by
- Leo Parker - baritone saxophone, written-by
- Benny Goodman - clarinet, written-by
- Charlie Christian - written-by
- Jimmy Mundy - written-by
- Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields - written-by
- Gus Kahn - written-by
- Walter Donaldson - written-by
- Leonard Feather - written-by
- Billy Rose - written-by
- Vincent Youmans - written-by
- Thelonious Monk - written-by
- Dennis Sandole - written-by
- Ben Bernie - written-by
- Kenneth Casey - written-by
- Maceo Pinkard - written-by
- Allie Wrubel - written-by
- Herbert Magidson - written-by
- Earl Hardy - written-by
- George & Ira Gershwin - written-by
- Andy Razaf - written-by
- Fats Waller - written-by
- Harry Akst - written-by
- Richard Whiting - written-by
- Johnny Hawksworth - written-by
- Herman Hupfeld - written-by
- Frank Paparelli - written-by