Fats Navarro

費特斯·納凡諾是僅次于迪吉·葛拉斯比的咆勃小喇叭手，費特斯在樂曲吹奏即興時相當(dāng)注重旋律的和諧性與情感融入的傳達(dá)演奏，他擅長使用小喇叭的中音域部分，不論在快速的咆勃即興還充滿柔情的抒情曲目，費特斯精湛的吹奏技巧完美詮釋每一段音符、精準(zhǔn)而充滿創(chuàng)意與情感！他對于他身后同樣短命的天才小喇叭手克里福·布朗有著非常深遠(yuǎn)的影響。
 
by Scott Yanow
One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time, Fats Navarro had a tragically brief career yet his influence is still being felt. His fat sound combined aspects of Howard McGhee, Roy Eldridge, and Dizzy Gillespie, became the main inspiration for Clifford Brown, and through Brownie greatly affected the tones and styles of Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, and Woody Shaw.
 
Navarro originally played piano and tenor before switching to trumpet. He started gigging with dance bands when he was 17, was with Andy Kirk during 1943-1944, and replaced Dizzy Gillespie with the Billy Eckstine big band during 1945-1946. During the next three years, Fats was second to only Dizzy among bop trumpeters. Navarro recorded with Kenny Clarkes Be Bop Boys, Coleman Hawkins, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Illinois Jacquet, and most significantly Tadd Dameron during 1946-1947. He had short stints with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Benny Goodman, continued working with Dameron, made classic recordings with Bud Powell (in a quintet with a young Sonny Rollins) and the Metronome All-Stars, and a 1950 Birdland appearance with Charlie Parker was privately recorded. However, Navarro was a heroin addict and that affliction certainly did not help him in what would be a fatal bout with tuberculosis that ended his life at age 26. He was well ed during the 1946-1949 period and most of his sessions are currently available on CD, but Fats Navarro (who would have turned 72 in 1995) could have done so much more.