Fats Navarro ファッツ・ナヴァロ
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Theodore (Fats) Navarro (24 September 1923 – 6 July 1950) was an
American jazz trumpet player. He was a pioneer of the bebop style of
jazz improvisation in the 1940's. He is regarded by many to have been
one of the first modern jazz trumpet improvisers and in his short
career had a strong stylistic influence on many other players, most
notably Clifford Brown.
Navarro was born in Key West, Florida, to Cuban-Black-Chinese
parentage. He began playing piano at age six, but did not become
serious about music until he began playing trumpet at age thirteen. By
the time he graduated high school he wanted out of Key West and joined
a dance band headed for the midwest.
After touring with many bands and gaining valuable experience, and
tiring of the road life, Navarro settled in New York City in 1946,
where his playing really took off. He met and played with, among
others, Charlie Parker, one of the greatest musical innovators of
modern jazz improvisation. He also developed a heroin addiction, which,
coupled with tuberculosis led to a slow decline in his health and death
at the age of twenty seven.
Among others, Fats Navarro played in the Andy Kirk, Billy Eckstine,
Benny Goodman, and Lionel Hampton big bands, and recorded small group
albums with Kenny Clarke, Tadd Dameron, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Illinois
Jacquet, Howard McGhee, and Bud Powell.
[External links]
Biography of
Fats Navarro
Fats
Navarro at All Music Guide
ファッツ・ナヴァロ
ディジー・ガレスピー以外にも“蛙のようなホッペタ”でラッパを吹く人間がいた!!
トランペットにおけるモダン・ジャズのイノヴェーターとして挙げられるのは、まずガレスピー、クリフォード・ブラウンだ。そして、時期的にその中間にあた
るのがファッツ・ナヴァロである。ビ・バップの世界で生き、麻薬と結核のために26歳の若さで散っていった。その輝きに満ちた音色と音の厚みは一級品であ
り、柔らかで滑らかなフレーズ群はクリフォードに影響を与えたといわれる。残念なのはレコーディングが少なく、リーダー作も希少なこと。『ザ・ファビュラ
ス・ファッツ・ナヴァロ』(47〜49年)は入手困難であったが、近年、再評価の波にあわせてCD化されている。トランペット小僧なら即買いだ!!
――もし、彼が50年代のハード・バップ期まで生きていたら……歴史は違ったかもしれない。
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