Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Air Mail Special
2. Don't Blame Me
3. Opus X
4. Love Me or Leave Me
5. Long, Long Journey
6. Tell Me Pretty Baby
7. Second Balcony Jump
8. Without a Song
9. Epistrophy
10. 52nd Street Theme
11. Oo-Bop Sh'bam
12. Rue Chaptal
13. Boppin' a Riff
14. Fat Boy
15. Everything's Cool
16. Webb City
17. Calling Dr. Jazz
18. Fracture
19. Maternity
20. Stealin' Trash
21. I Mean You
22. Bean and the Boys

Disc 2:

1. Just a Mystery
2. Red Pepper
3. Spinal
4. Hollerin' and Screamin'
5. Fat Girl
6. Ice Freezes Red
7. Eb-Pob
8. Goin' to Minton's
9. Jivin' With Jack the Bellboy
10. High on an Open Mike
11. Sweet Georgia Brown
12. Chase
13. Squirrel
14. Our Delight
15. Dameronia
16. Be-Bop Carol
17. Tadd Walk
18. Gone With the Wind
19. That Someone Must Be You
20. Nostalgia
21. Barry's Bop
22. Be-Bop Romp
23. Fats Blows

Disc 3:

1. Half Step Down Please
2. Jumpin' Jane
3. Dextrose
4. Index
5. Dextivity
6. Good Bait, No. 1
7. Good Bait, No. 2
8. Anthropology
9. Oh, Lady Be Good
10. Symphonette
11. Tadd Walk
12. Squirrel
13. Dameronia
14. Our Delight
15. Eb-Pob
16. Jahbero
17. Lady Bird
18. Symphonette
19. I Think I'll Go Away
20. Stealin' Apples

Disc 4:

1. Skunk
2. Boperation
3. Double Talk
4. Guilty
5. Yardbird Suite
6. Stranger in Town
7. As Time Goes By
8. Move
9. Move
10. Overtime
11. Sid's Delight
12. Casbah
13. Bouncing with Bud
14. Wail
15. Dance of the Infidels
16. 52nd Street Theme
17. Wailing Wall
18. Go
19. Infatuation
20. Stop
21. Night in Tunisia
22. Dizzy Atmosphere

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #136598 in Music
• Released on: 2001-05-28
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Box set, Import

Album Description
87 track, 4 CD box-set showcases the immense talent of BeBop's trumpeter extraordinaire. 40 page booklet tells the story of a genius still to be properly recognized. Rare photos and full track information are also included. Additional artist's include, Billy Eckstine, Coleman Hawkins, Illinois Jacquet, Tadd Dameron, Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. 2000 release. 4 standard jewel cases housed together in a deluxe slipcase.

Customer Reviews

Finally! A Career Retrospective of Fats Navarro
Theodore "Fats" Navarro was only 26 years old when he died in 1950, but the jazz trumpeter accomplished much in a recording career that lasted just five years. Navarro was arguably the second great trumpeter to emerge from the bebop movement, whose controlled yet lyrical style was a marked alternative to the more flamboyant Dizzy Gillespie.

Most of Navarro's recordings have been available in the last few decades; he did the bulk of his recording for Blue Note and Savoy, both as a leader and a sideman. But there has never been a career-spanning retrospective, at least until now. Proper Records, an English label, has issued this fine four CD set, which features excellent sound and a terrific booklet.

What makes this set special is that it traces Navarro from his days with Billy Eckstine and His Orchestra to his early solo sides for Savoy, then on to his groundbreaking work with bandleader/composer/arranger Tadd Dameron, fiery trumpet duels with Kenny Dorham and, finally, to his final recordings with Charlie Parker, a mere week before his death from tuberculosis,apparently exacerbated by heroin use. Seldom has the development of a musician been better traced and, in particular, his work with Dameron sounds better than ever. Also included are a few rareand seldom reissued sessions that demonstrate Navarro's flair as an accompaniest for vocalists.

Fats Navarro's greatest legacy may be his influence on such later trumpeters as Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard; it is worth noting that these three major figures looked towrds Navarro rather than Gillespie for much of their style. "The Fats Navarro Story" is an essential purchasr for fans of bebop, and this box set should go far in getting Navarro the recognition he deserves.

A big bopper is always impressive...
There are many reasons one would not want to invest in a
reissue box set of an artist already in your collection. This
set overpowers all concerns and then some! The evidence here
indicates Fats Navarro was indeed a heavyweight in his chosen field of Bebop trumpet. Really, there is no filler on these
meaty sides. This set captures not only Fats but also numerous
Pre-Bop and Bop players in their prime-stunningly so. I will
let you discover each disc's delights on your own but am compelled to suggest that you get this set to hear how master improvisors work quotations into solos (My favorite so far:
Fats starts his "Fats Blows" solo with a hilarious Howdy Doody
reference). For music lovers, Jazz fans, or music students
worldwide...indulge your ears with this inexpensive but valuable
set. The second version of Move on Disc four is simply Bebop ecstacy- on par with the trumpet/percussion Gillespie version of
Caravan or the transcendant "Donna Lee"solo by Clifford Brown. A perfect gift for any trumpeter.

You gotta get this!
This is one of the greatest deals I've come across for a long time.. I'm a professional trumpet player and I love Fats Navarro.. There are so many great musicians on this CD its insane! Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Coleman Hawkins, J.J. Johnson, Max Roach, Kenny Clarke, its incredible! And its all for [a great price]. I'd be willing to pay [a lot more] for this collection, its great!