July 7 - Fats Navarro, jazz musician (born 1923)

Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player.

July 7 - Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1923)

A moderately fast bebop song, it featured the trumpeter Fats Navarro, who is said to "exhibit mastery of the difficult chord progression".

Fats Navarro - trumpet (tracks 1-4, 7-10)

Fats Navarro (September 24, 1923 - July 7, 1950)

What is generally not known is the influence that he had on younger hard bop trumpeters, together with Fats Navarro.

The power, range and brilliance together with the warmth and invention was something that I hadn't heard since Fats Navarro".

Musicians born that year included Fats Navarro and Tito Alberti.

Fats Navarro, trumpet player and pioneer of bebop.