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The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 1

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The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 1
Studio album by
Released1957
RecordedSeptember 26, 1947
October 11, 1948
August 9, 1949
GenreBebop
Length36:07
LabelBlue Note
Fats Navarro chronology
Fats Bud-Klook-Sonny-Kinney
(1955)
The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 1
(1957)
The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 2
(1957)

The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 1 is a studio album by Fats Navarro and released posthumously by Blue Note Records. Material for the album came from record dates with a variety of musicians including Tadd Dameron, Ernie Henry, Wardell Gray, Charlie Rouse, and Bud Powell.[1] The music was recorded on three sessions, with one coming from 1947, 1948, and 1949 respectively.[2]

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
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AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz (crown)[4]

Jazz critic Stephen Cook described Navarro as a "fluid and inventive bebop trumpeter" and considered the album "an essential title for jazz enthusiasts."[1]

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album a full 4 stars and a "crown," calling it and its companion volume "one of the peaks of the bebop movement and one of the essential modern-jazz records."[4]

Critic John Fordham described the two volumes as "essential Navarro, and essential bebop generally, featuring a string of dazzling themes illuminated by the trumpeter's glowing tone."[5]

Author Tom Piazza stated that the albums "show instantly what set Dameron's work apart," and commented: "Among bebop dates, these were really something special, full of carefully worked-out ensembles, introductions, and codas, yet still with plenty of stretching room for the soloists."[6]

Saxophonist and writer Benny Green noted Dameron's "ravishing tone" and "precise delivery," and called the recordings "a reminder of the grace of one of the earliest modern pioneers, a grace that was precocious because in the 1940s modernists had still not formulated their own conventions."[7]

Track listing

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All compositions by Tadd Dameron unless otherwise stated

  1. "Our Delight" (alternate take) – 3:09
  2. "Our Delight" – 3:00
  3. "The Squirrel" (alternate take) – 3:22
  4. "The Squirrel" – 3:01
  5. "The Chase" (alternate take) – 2:59
  6. "The Chase" – 2:46
  7. "Wail" (alternate take) (Bud Powell) – 2:44[8]
  8. "Bouncing With Bud" (alternate take) (Powell) – 3:16[8]
  9. "Double Talk" (Howard McGhee, Navarro) – 5:35
  10. "Dameronia" (alternate take) – 3:15
  11. "Dameronia" – 3:00

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Fats Navarro - The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 1 Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic, retrieved 2023-12-28
  2. ^ "Fats Navarro Discography". www.jazzdisco.org. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 6. Oxford University Press. p. 131.
  4. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (1994). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP and Cassette. Penguin Books. pp. 964–965.
  5. ^ Fordham, John (1993). Jazz on CD: The Essential Guide. Kyle Cathie Limited. p. 208.
  6. ^ Piazza, Tom (1995). The Guide to Classic Recorded Jazz. University of Iowa Press. p. 69.
  7. ^ Green, Benny (1973). Drums in My Ears. Davis-Poynter. p. 34.
  8. ^ a b The masters from this session were released under Bud Powell's name for the album The Amazing Bud Powell