The Fats Navarro Story [Box]

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Includes a 40 page booklet. Personnel includes: Fats Navarro, Coleman Hawkins, Illinois Jacquet, Benny Goodman, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Milt Jackson, Sonny Rollins, Max Roach. Contains 87 tracks. Personnel: Fats Navarro (trumpet); Earl Coleman, Kay Penton, Billy Eckstine, Sarah Vaughan (vocals); Chuck Wayne, Al Valente, Huey Long, John Collins, Al Casey , Mundell Lowe, Billy Bauer , Connie Wainwright (guitar); Benny Goodman, Buddy DeFranco (clarinet); Budd Johnson (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); John Cobbs, Ernie Henry, Ray Perry, Rudy Williams , John Jackson , Porter Kilbert, Jimmy Powell , Norris Turney, Sahib Shihab, Sonny Stitt, Bill Frazier, Charlie Parker (alto saxophone); Coleman Hawkins, Dexter Gordon, Don Lanphere, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis , Arthur Simmons, Gene Ammons, Illinois Jacquet, George Nicholas , Allen Eager, Sonny Rollins, Wardell Gray, Morris Lane, Josh Jackson, Ray Abrams, Charlie Rouse, Charlie Ventura (tenor saxophone); Ernie Caceres, TEddy Cypron, Marion Deveta, Eddie de Verteuill, Leo Parker, Cecil Payne (bass saxophone); Howard McGhee (trumpet, piano); Boonie Hazel, Dizzy Gillespie, Gail Brockman, Shorty McConnell, Marion Hazel, Raymond Orr, Joe Newman , Kenny Dorham, Miles Davis (trumpet); Taswell Baird, Dicky Wells, Gerald Valentine, Walter Knox, Eli Robinson, Chips Outcalt, Howard Scott , J.J. Johnson , Ted Kelly, Kai Winding, Bill Harris , Gus Chappell (trombone); Gene DiNovi, Hank Jones , Richard Ellington, Jim Golden, Al Haig, Lennie Tristano, Linton Garner, Ralph Burns, Tadd Dameron, Bill Doggett, John Malachi, Bud Powell (piano); Milt Jackson (vibraphone); Denzil Best, Mel Zelnick, Kenny Clarke, Max Roach, Roy Haynes, Art Blakey, Art Mardigan, Shadow Wilson, Shelly Manne, Buddy Rich (drums); Vidal Bolado (congas); Diego Ibarra, Chano Pozo ( Luciano "Chano" Pozo Gonzales) (bongos). Liner Note Author: Joop Visser. Arrangers: Gerald Valentine; Pete Rugolo; Tadd Dameron; Walter Fuller; John Malachi. Bebop trumpet genius Fats Navarro only lived to the age of 26. During that time he left behind a slew of recordings with numerous bands and vocalists for a number of labels. Proper, a British compilation label, has attempted to assemble four CDs of music from what it perceives to be Navarro's four major periods, in order to reveal the trumpeter's development not only as a soloist, but as a bandleader. And Proper did it for little more than the price of one CD. Navarro was a force so pervasive and influential that his only equals during his lifetime were Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown. The first disc, Bebop Boys, showcases Navarro's emerging place in the company of great bands such as the short-lived but ridiculously influential Billy Eckstine and His Orchestra, where he replaced Dizzy Gillespie. Some of the personnel on these sides include Sarah Vaughan, Art Blakey, Gene Ammons, and Tommy Potter; "Air Mail Special" and "Don't Blame Me" from these sessions were arranged by Tadd Dameron. The sound quality varies only slightly. By and large they sound better than the material issued by National or Blue Note. Later sessions include bands called the Bebop Boys with Kenny Dorham, Kenny Clarke, and Sonny Stitt. The set closes with a couple of tracks from Savoy with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis as a leader and two from Sonora with Coleman Hawkins fronting the band. Literally, there isn't anything on this disc that is not first-rate. The second CD, Nostalgia, focuses on Navarro's work with Coleman Hawkins and Lockjaw Davis from sessions late in 1946 recorded for Savoy. Also represented are Navarro's first sessions as a leader with his Thin Men; a quartet with Ernie Henry, Tadd Dameron, and others; and Dameron's sextet. Most of the material is from Savoy, but there are also tracks cut for Alladin (with Illinois Jacquet & Big Band), Counterpoint, and Blue Note. So many name players are featured on this disc that it's impossible to mention them all, but some include Charlie Rouse, Shadow Wilson, Charlie V
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