Fats Navarro
Born:
09/24/1923
City:
Key West
Region:
Florida
Country:
USA
Died:
07/07/1950
Years Active:
1940's-1950
Instruments:
Trumpet
Associated Artists:
Image Credit:
William P. Gottlieb/Ira and Leonore S. Gershwin Fund Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
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Theodore "Fats" Navarro was an American jazz trumpet player. He was a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s. He met and played with, among others, Charlie Parker, but Navarro was in a position to demand a high salary and did not join one of Parker's regular groups. He also developed a heroin addiction, which, coupled with tuberculosis and a weight problem (he was nicknamed "Fat Girl") led to a slow decline in his health and death at the age of 26.
Concerts
| Event |
Date |
Venue | City | Region | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jazz @ the Philharmonic | 02/26/1949 | Masonic Temple | Detroit | Michigan | USA |