This
chronology documents the main events in the life of Fats Navarro known to me.
Much remains to be discovered and this chronology has many gaps. Anyone with
additional information is encouraged to send it along with suitable source
information.
I am indebted to Leif Bo Petersen for compiling this chronology.
|
YEAR |
DATE |
EVENT |
|
1923 |
Sept
24 |
Theodore
"Fats" Navarro is born in Key West, Florida. Mixed ethnic
background (Cuban, Chinese, Black). The family is
not well off financially. The father is a barber and a
amateur pianist. Fats is third cousin to Charlie
Shavers, who was born six years earlier. |
|
1929 |
Starts
playing piano at age six. |
|
|
1936 |
Starts
playing trumpet at thirteen. |
|
|
1939 |
Walter
Johnson Band. Fats Navarro plays tenor sax with Walter Johnson Band in Miami
on holidays. |
|
|
1941 |
Graduated
from Fredrick Douglass High School in Key West, FL. After high school, he concentrate on his music. He establishes a friendship with Idrees Sulieman (nee Leonard Graham). They both admire and learn Dud Bascomb's solos from Erskins Hawkins recordings. They leave Florida about the same time. Joins the Sol Allbrigth Band in Orlando. He travels with Allbright to Cincinnati. Here he studies trumpet with an Ohio teacher. Moves to Indianapolis to go on the road with Snookum Russell's Indianapolis-based orchestra. In Snookum Russell's band Navarro played Bascombs solos. He becomes a friend of J.J. Johnson in Russell's Band. His weight and appetite give him the nickname "Fats". |
|
|
1942 |
March |
J.J.
Johnson joins Russell's Band. He and Navarro become friends. |
|
Early
Oct. |
Russell
disbands. J.J. Johnson leaves Russell. |
|
|
1943 |
October? |
Leaves
Snookum Russell and joins Andy Kirk And His
Orchestra. Here he meets Howard McGhee and is influenced in modern direction.
He hangs out with Ed Loving, baritone sax, of the Kirk band and jams at Minton's
in Harlem in New York City when the band is in town. Makes first recorded appearance. It's a radio broadcast of the AFRS (Navy) recording, NYC (recordings exist). Fats does not solo. |
|
Nov.
19 |
Andy
Kirk And His Orchestra. Engagement at The Apollo Theatre, NYC. Nov. 19 - Nov.
25. |
|
|
December |
Navarro
engagement at Kelly's Stable with Clark Monroe Combo including Bud Powell. |
|
|
Dec.
3 |
Makes
first studio records with the Kirk band for Decca in New York City
(recordings exist). First recorded solo by Navarro on Shorty Boo.
|
|
|
1944 |
Jan.
2 |
Andy
Kirk And His Orchestra. Coca Cola and AFRS Spotlight Show. Newcastle Army Air
Base, Wilmington, Delaware. (recordings exist). |
|
February |
Andy
Kirk And His Orchestra. Engagement at the Plantation Club, LA. (February and
March?) |
|
|
February? |
Andy
Kirk And His Orchestra. Recordings for AFRS "Jubilee" Hollywood,
LA. (recordings exist). |
|
|
April |
Andy
Kirk And His Orchestra. Touring cross-country back to the East with via Salt
Lake City and Chicago. |
|
|
June
2 |
Andy
Kirk And His Orchestra. Engagement at The Apollo Theatre, NYC. June 2 - June
8. |
|
|
June
7 |
Andy
Kirk And His Orchestra. Broadcast Station WMCA from the Apollo. (recordings exist). |
|
|
June
9 |
Andy
Kirk And His Orchestra. Engagement at the Howard Theater, Washington. June 9
- June 15. |
|
|
June
16 |
Andy
Kirk And His Orchestra. Engagement at the Royal Theater, Baltimore. June 16 -
June 28. Howard McGhee leaves Kirk after the band had finished the
engagement. |
|
|
July? |
Miles
Davis meets Navarro in St. Louis in the summer. |
|
|
Sept.
29 |
Andy
Kirk And His Orchestra. Engagement at The Apollo Theatre, NYC September 29 -
October 2. |
|
|
September? |
Miles
Davis jams with Fats Navarro at Minton's just after his arrival in NYC
September 1944. Davis is hanging out with Navarro, Freddie Webster, Max Roach
and J.J. Johnson. |
|
|
Late
Oct. |
Andy
Kirk And His Orchestra. Engagement at the Louisiana Club, Washington, D.C. On
Dizzy Gillespie's recommendation, Billy Eckstine
listens to Navarro, in order to find a replacement for Gillespie, who plans
to leave the Eckstine Band. |
|
|
Dec.
19 |
Andy
Kirk And His Orchestra. Recording for Decca, NYC. (recordings
exist). |
|
|
1945 |
January |
Navarro
joins the Eckstine Band. |
|
February |
Eckstine Band has engagement at the Club Plantation, LA, opposite
Billie Holiday. Broadcasts for the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS
"Jubilee") including Sarah Vaughan and Lena Horne. (recordings exist). |
|
|
April? |
Billy
Eckstine Orchestra. After LA, the band has an
engagement in Baltimore. |
|
|
May
2 |
Eckstine Band records in New York City for National. |
|
|
June |
Eckstine Band celebrates its first anniversary in South Carolina. |
|
|
July |
Navarro
may have participated for a short time in Gillespie's first big band. |
|
|
Sept.
4 |
Eckstine Band records for National in New York City. |
|
|
Oct.
3 |
Eckstine Band records for National in New York City. Navarro solos
on Long Long Journey. |
|
|
1946 |
Navarro
settles in New York City. He plays on 52nd Street and at Minton's. |
|
|
Jan.
3 |
Records
with Kirk Band for Decca in New York City. |
|
|
February |
Eckstine Band records for National in New York City. Navarro solos
on Tell Me Pretty Baby. |
|
|
May
12 |
Participates
in "Re Bop Jam Session" (Producers: Monte Kay & Symphony Sid;
New Jazz foundation) Lincoln Square Center 12-3pm, NYC. Personnel: Red Rodney
(tp), J.J. Johnson (tb),
Charlie Ventura (ts), Sonny Stitt
(as), Dexter Gordon (ts), Sarah Vaughn (voc), Billy
Eckstine (voc) with Fats Navarro (tp), Gene Ammons (ts), Leo Parker (bs), Red
Garland (p), Bill McMahon (b), Art Blakey (d). (I
have found no recordings). |
|
|
June |
Billy
Eckstine And His Orchestra. Engagement Royal,
Baltimore. Closing June 6. Fats Navarro leaves Eckstine when the band leaves for California. He stays in NYC in order to get a union card. Eckstine opens in Oakland July 31. Somewhere around this time (after leaving Eckstine) he begins to use hard drugs. |
|
|
July? |
On
a one-nighter in Philadelphia Navarro plays with
Clifford Brown, then 17 year old, and a rhythm group in a club. The incident
is reported by Benny Golson, who tells that Navarro
was impressed by Brown's playing. |
|
|
Sept.
5 |
Kenny
Clarke and His 52nd Street Boys. NYC. Recordings for Victor (French Swing). Producer:
Charles Delauney. |
|
|
Sept.
6 |
Fats
Navarro and Gil Fuller's Modernists (The Be Bop
Boys). NYC. Recordings for Savoy. |
|
|
Autume |
May
have played in Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis's band, which was house-band
at Minton's. Is reported jamming at Minton's in this period. |
|
|
December |
Coleman
Hawkins and His Orchestra. NYC. Recordings for Sonora. |
|
|
Dec.
18 |
Eddie
Davis and His Reboppers. NYC. Recordings for Savoy.
|
|
|
Dec.
20 |
Eddie
Davis and His Reboppers. NYC. Recordings for Savoy.
|
|
|
1947 |
Tommy
Reynolds Orchestra. Fats Navarro plays for a short time with Tommy Reynolds
in 1947. Have no details. Illinois Jacquet. Navarro plays a couple of months (?) with Jacquet's band including an engagement at Spotlite where Miles Davis is participating. J.J. Johnson is in the band too. |
|
|
Jan.
7 |
Illinois
Jacquet and His Orchestra. Recordings for Aladdin
in NYC. |
|
|
Jan.
16 |
Fats
Navarro and His Thin Men. Recordings for Savoy in NYC. |
|
|
Feb.
18 |
Milton
Buggs, Billy Stewart accompanied by Ray Abrams
Orchestra. Recordings for Savoy in NYC. |
|
|
April |
May
have rehearsed with Gillespie's big band. Charlie Parker Quintet. From April Fats Navarro is often sitting in with Charlie Parker at the Three Deuces. Many people are of the opinion that Navarro should have had Miles Davis's chair in the band. |
|
|
April
1 |
Illinois
Jacquet and His Orchestra. Recordings for Aladdin.
NYC. |
|
|
April
12 |
WNEW
Saturday Night Swing Session broadcast from NYC studios before a live
audience. Personnel: Fats Navarro (tp), Bill Harris
(tb), Charlie Ventura, Allan Eager (ts), Al Valente (g), Ralph
Burns (p), Chubby Jackson (b), Buddy Rich (d). (recordings
exist). |
|
|
May
5 |
JATP.
Monday night concert at Carnegie Hall, NYC. Personnel: Buck Clayton, Fats
Navarro (tp), Kai Winding (tb),
Charlie Parker, Willie Smith (as), Coleman Hawkins, Flip Philips, (ts), Harry Carney (bs), Kenny
Kersey, Lennie Tristano,
Hank Jones (p), Oscar Pettiford, Eddie Safranski (b), Alvin Stoller,
Buddy Rich (d), Helen Humes (vcl).
(I have found no recordings documenting Navarro's participation. But recordings of other parts of the concert exists). |
|
|
August |
Concert.
Lincoln Garden Center. Mentioned by Miles Davis (second half of 1947).
Personnel (partial): Fats Navarro, Miles Davis, Red Rodney, Freddie Webster (tp), Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon (ts),
Sonny Stitt, Charlie Parker (as), Bud Powell (p),
Art Blakey, Kenny Clarke, Max Roach (d). (I have
found no recordings). |
|
|
September |
Kay
Penton accompanied by Tadd Dameron
And His Group. NYC. Recording for V-Disc. |
|
|
Sept.
26 |
Tadd
Dameron Sextet. NYC WOR Studies. Recording for Blue
Note. Now generally considered to be one of the great sessions of the Bop
era. |
|
|
Oct.
28 |
Tadd
Dameron And His Band NYC. Recording for Savoy. |
|
|
Nov.
8 |
Barry
Ulanov and his All Star Metronome Jazzmen NYC.
Mutual Studios. Broadcast Station WOR US Treasury. Radio Broadcast for Mutual
(recordings exist). |
|
|
Dec.
5 |
Fats
Navarro and his band NYC. Recordings for Savoy. |
|
|
Dec.
11 |
Coleman
Hawkins and His Orchestra. NYC. Recordings for Victor. |
|
|
Dec.
22 |
Dexter
Gordon & His Boys. NYC. Recordings for Savoy. |
|
|
Dec.
26 |
Lionel
Hampton And His Orchestra. Engagement at Regal, Chicago. December 26 -
January 1. Navarro joins Hampton here or a little later |
|
|
Dec.
31 |
Navarro
number 18 on trumpet in Down Beat's Reader's Poll. |
|
|
1948 |
Winter |
Lionel
Hampton And His Orchestra. Navarro plays three months (?) with Hampton. He
meets the orchestra in NYC. Next day there are rehearsals in Palace Theatre,
Washington. The orchestra stays one week in Washington, D.C. and after they
go on the road. (30-40 one-nighters). Navarro meets Charlie Mingus who is also with the band. |
|
Jan.
6 |
Lionel
Hampton And His Orchestra. Engagement Tune Town, St. Louis. January 6 -
January 12. |
|
|
Jan.
16 |
Lionel
Hampton And His Orchestra. Engagement at Strand, NYC. January 16 - February
12 |
|
|
Feb.
27 |
Lionel
Hampton And His Orchestra. Engagement "State" Hartford, Conn.
February 27 - February 29. |
|
|
March
11 |
Lionel
Hampton And His Orchestra. Engagement at RKO, Boston. March 11 - March 17. |
|
|
March
22 |
Lionel
Hampton And His Orchestra. Engagement at Palace, Columbus, Ohio. March 22 -
March 24. |
|
|
March
26 |
Lionel
Hampton And His Orchestra. Engagement Paradise, Detroit. March 26 - April 1. |
|
|
April
10 |
Hampton
begins a series of Saturday afternoon broadcasts on the Mutual Network
starting April 10, at 3 p.m.? Lionel Hampton And His Orchestra. 11:30 p.m. (delayed until after midnight). Concert Carnegie Hall, NYC (recordings exist). |
|
|
April
13 |
Navarro
participates in Royal Roost Concert (first Royal Roost concert). |
|
|
April
15 |
Lionel
Hampton And His Orchestra. Adam Theatre, Newark, NJ Broadcasts April 15 -
April 21. Lionel Hampton And His Orchestra. Adam Theatre, Newark, NJ Broadcasts of April 17. (recordings exist). |
|
|
April
23 |
Lionel
Hampton And His Orchestra. Engagement at Howard Theatre, Washington DC. April
23 - April 29. |
|
|
April
24 |
Lionel
Hampton And His Orchestra. Howard Theatre, Washington DC. Broadcasts
(recordings exist). There may be a recording from April 24 or 25 too. |
|
|
April
30 |
Lionel
Hampton And His Orchestra. Engagement at Royal Theatre, Baltimore. April 30?
- May 6. |
|
|
May
1 |
Lionel
Hampton And His Orchestra. Howard Theatre, Washington, D.C., Broadcast
(recordings exist). |
|
|
May
8 |
Lionel
Hampton And His Orchestra. Portsmouth, Broadcasts (recordings exist). |
|
|
May
23 |
Lionel
Hampton And His Orchestra. Engagement Civic Opera, Chicago. Navarro seems to
have left Hampton in Chicago. |
|
|
August |
Monte
Kay opens Royal Roost for bop First Tuesday Concert (producers: Monte Kay
& Symphony Sid): Fats Navarro, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Tadd Dameron, Dexter Gordon. (I have found no recordings). Tadd Dameron Quintet. Engagement at Royal Roost, NYC, from August and for about 39 weeks. (I think Fats Navarro leaves about the end of October). Tadd Dameron Quintet/Sextet. Engagement at Royal Roost, NYC, August 27 - September 8. |
|
|
Aug.
29 |
Tadd
Dameron Quintet. Broadcast Royal Roost, NYC. (recordings exist). |
|
|
Sept.
4 |
Tadd
Dameron Quintet. Broadcast Royal Roost, NYC. (recordings exist). |
|
|
Sept.
9 |
Benny
Goodman Septet with Wardell Gray. Recordings for
Capitol, NYC. This session also is a rehearsal for a new Benny Goodman group,
including Navarro, that aborts as Mary Lou Williams
leaves the group during rehearsals. |
|
|
Sept.
30 |
Tadd
Dameron Septet. NYC, Recordings for Blue Note. Tadd Dameron Sextet. Engagement at Royal Roost, NYC, September 30 - October 27? |
|
|
October |
Benny
Goodman And His Orchestra: Chico O'Farrill had the
job of making a "book" for a new Goodman big band which Goodman began
to gather in October. Chico O'Farrill tells: I met
Fats Navarro. He was very much a mentor to me. Fats was
supposed to join Benny Goodman's Band. But was fired after coming late to
rehearsal three times. Other involved arrangers: Tadd Dameron,
Gerry Mulligan and Gil Evans. Goodman was impressed by Davis' Nonet. |
|
|
Oct.
2 |
Tadd
Dameron Quintet. Broadcast Royal Roost, NYC. (recordings exist). |
|
|
Oct.
4 |
Tadd
Dameron Quintet. Broadcast Royal Roost, NYC. (recordings exist). |
|
|
Oct.
9 |
Tadd
Dameron Quintet. Broadcast Royal Roost, NYC. (recordings exist). |
|
|
Oct.
10 |
Monte
Kay Presents Symphony Sid's Bop Concert. Royal Roost, NYC, 4-8pm. Personnel:
Fats Navarro (tp), James Moody (ts),
Allen Eager, Dexter Gordon (ts), Cecil Payne (bs), Milt Jackson (vib), Tadd Dameron, Al Haig (p), Tommy Potter (b), Max Roach, Art Blakey (d), Chano Pozo (congos). (I have found no
recordings). |
|
|
Oct.
11 |
McGhee-Navarro
Boptet. Apex Studios, NYC, Recordings for Blue
Note. |
|
|
Oct.
16 |
Tadd
Dameron Septet. Broadcast Royal Roost, NYC. (recordings exist). |
|
|
Oct.
23 |
Tadd
Dameron Septet. Broadcast Royal Roost, NYC. (recordings exist). |
|
|
November |
Don
Lanphere tells: I lived with Chan Richardson (later
common-law wife of Charlie Parker) at 7 West 52nd. Fats Navarro and Bird came
there. Navarro was taking me around, and introduced me to people. We played a
few times together. |
|
|
Nov.
7 |
Concert.
Civic Opera House, Chicago. Personnel (partial): Al Benson (DJ), Billie
Holiday, Gene Ammons, Tom Archia,
Charlie Ventura, Bennie Green, Ed Shaughnessy,
Miles Davis, Allen Eager, Fats Navarro, Max Roach, Dolores Bell, Jackie
Paris. (I have found no recordings). |
|
|
Nov.
22 |
Concert.
Milwaukee. Personnel (partial): Billie Holiday, Gene Ammons,
Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Max Roach, Jackie Paris. (I have found no
recordings). |
|
|
Nov.
29 |
Earl
Coleman And His All Stars, Fats Navarro Quintet. WOR Studios, Broadway and
38th Street, NYC. Recordings for Dial. |
|
|
Dec.
23 |
Christmas
Show at The Clique, NYC. Personnel: Fats Navarro (tp),
Kai Winding (tb), Lucky Thompson, Dexter Gordon (ts), Milt Jackson (vbs), Bud
Powell (p), Oscar Pettiford (b), Kenny Clarke (d).
Miles Davis joins when he leaves Charlie Parker Quintet. Engagement may have
run to January 24. (I have found no recordings). |
|
|
Dec.
29 |
Fats
Navarro number 13 on trumpet in Down Beat Reader's Poll. |
|
|
1949 |
January |
Howard
McGhee Band? Fats Navarro plays in Howard McGhee Band including Percy Heath
(may have been earlier). |
|
Jan.
3 |
Metronome
All Stars. Recordings for Victor, NYC. |
|
|
Jan.
18 |
Tadd
Dameron And His Orchestra/Big Ten. Recordings for
Capitol. |
|
|
Feb.
11 |
JATP
Tour. Personnel: Fats Navarro (tp), Tommy Turk (tb), Charlie Parker, Sonny Criss
(as), Coleman Hawkins, Flip Philips (ts), Hank
Jones (p), Ray Brown (b), Buddy Rich (d), Ella Fitzgerald (vcl). Carnegie Hall, NYC. JATP troop, Machito, Charlie Parker. (Unissued recordings exist). |
|
|
Feb.
12 |
JATP
Tour. Academy of Music. Philadelphia. (I have found no recordings). |
|
|
Feb.
13 |
JATP
Tour. Symphony Hall, Boston. (I have found no recordings). |
|
|
Feb.
20 |
JATP
Tour. Kleinhans's, Buffalo. (I have found no
recordings). |
|
|
Feb.
21 |
JATP
Tour. Massey Hall, Toronto. (I have found no recordings). |
|
|
Feb.
25 |
JATP
Tour. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Michigan. (I have found no
recordings). |
|
|
Feb.
26 |
JATP
Tour. Masonic Hall, Detroit. (I have found no recordings). |
|
|
Feb.
27 |
JATP
Tour. Memorial Hall, Columbus, Ohio. (I have found no recordings). |
|
|
March
4 |
JATP
Tour. Syria Mosque, Pittsburgh. (I have found no recordings). |
|
|
March
5 |
JATP
Tour. Taft Theater, Cincinnati. (I have found no recordings). |
|
|
March
6 |
JATP
Tour. Public Music Hall, Cleveland. (I have found no recordings). |
|
|
March
11 |
JATP
Tour. Pabst Theater, Milwaukee. (I have found no recordings). |
|
|
March
12 |
JATP
Tour. KRNT Theater, Des Moines. (I have found no recordings). |
|
|
March
13 |
JATP
Tour. Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis. (I have found no recordings). |
|
|
March
15 |
JATP
Tour. High School Auditorium (South High?), Salt Lake City. (I have found no
recordings). |
|
|
March
17 |
JATP
Tour. Civic Auditorium, San Francisco. (I have found no recordings). |
|
|
March
20 |
JATP
Tour. Auditorium Theater, Oakland. (I have found no recordings). |
|
|
March
23 |
JATP
Tour. Municipal Auditorium, Denver. (I have found no recordings). |
|
|
March
25 |
JATP
Tour. Chicago Civil Opera House. (I have found no recordings). |
|
|
March
26 |
JATP
Tour. Mosque (Theater), Newark. (I have found no recordings). |
|
|
March
27 |
JATP
Tour. Washington, D.C. (I have found no recordings). |
|
|
March
30 |
JATP
Tour. Brooklyn Academy of Music. (I have found no recordings). The tour ends
in NYC. |
|
|
April |
Three
Deuces, NYC. Sextet, including: J.J. Johnson, Fats Navarro, Stan Getz. |
|
|
June |
Miles
Davis tells: Fats is taking heroin and cocaine at this time together with
Sonny Rollins, Walter Bishop, Jr., Jackie McLean and Philly Joe Jones in
Navarro's flat at Cambridge Hotel, 110th Street and in Bishop's house. |
|
|
July |
Max
Roach Quintet feat. Fats Navarro. Engagement Cameo Room, Mercantile Hall,
Philadelphia opposite Clifford Brown. (Photo by Charlie Chisholm exists). Three Deuces re-opens for jazz. Navarro and Bud Powell participates in several jam sessions organized by Leonard Feather on Tuesday nights. |
|
|
August |
Engagement
at Three Deuces, NYC. Personnel: Miles Davis, Fats Navarro (tp), Kai Winding (tb), Lucky
Thompson, Dexter Gordon (ts), Milt Jackson (vbs), Bud Powell (p), Oscar Pettiford
(b), Kenny Clarke (d). |
|
|
Aug.
8 |
Bud
Powell's Modernists/Trio. Recordings for Blue Note. |
|
|
September |
Sept.
1? |
J.J.
Johnson's Boptet. Fats Navarro (tp),
J.J. Johnson (tb), Stan Getz (ts),
John Lewis (p), Curly Russell (b), Max Roach (dr)
Engagement Three Deuces, NYC, September 1? - October 5? |
|
Sept.
20 |
Fats
Navarro Quintet. NYC. Recordings for Prestige (New Jazz). |
|
|
December |
Dec.
30 |
Fats
Navarro number 4 on trumpet in Down Beat Reader's Poll. |
|
1950 |
Miles
Davis tells: Fats Navarro was now a real bad junkie. His wife Lena worried.
They had a daughter named Linda. He was skin and bones... I and Benny Harris
shot up with him. Horace Silver: "and I saw him (Bud Powell) at Birdland working with Coleman Hawkins and his group. The group had Hawk on tenor, Fats Navarro on trumpet, J.J. Johnson on trombone, Curley Russell on bass, Art Blakey on drums and Bud on piano. What a dynamite band" |
|
|
1950 |
May |
Engagement
at Birdland most of May with Charlie Parker and the
Bud Powell Trio. "Birdland Dream Band" ("Dizzy Gillespie's Dream Band", "Symphony Sid's Dream Band"). Personnel: Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Kenny Dorham, Red Rodney (tp), J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding, Benny Green (tb), Lee Konitz (as), Gerry Mulligan (bar), Billy Taylor (p), Al McKibbon (b), Art Blakey (d). They play from Gillespie's book. (I have found no recordings). |
|
1950 |
May
16 |
Birdland All Stars. Personnel: Miles Davis, Fats Navarro (tp), J.J. Johnson (tb), Charlie
Parker (as), Brew Moore (ts), Tadd Dameron (p), Walther Bishop, Jr.(p), Curley Russell (b),
Art Blakey (dr), Master of
ceremonies Pee Wee Marquette. Birdland, 1678
Broadway, NYC. (recordings exist). (This session has
been dated in many different ways. Lohman dates it
as 30-Jun, a week before Navarro's death. Vail dates it as 17-May. The date
is really a jam session at Birdland, and as Monday
was jam session day, I would suggest Monday, May 16 or Monday, May 30. From
Monday, May 23 there exists recordings with Parker and other musicians. |
|
May
17 |
Charlie
Parker, Fats Navarro and the Bud Powell Trio. Birdland,
NYC, WJZ radio broadcast. (recordings exist). |
|
|
May
18 |
Charlie
Parker, Fats Navarro and the Bud Powell Trio. Birdland,
NYC, WJZ radio broadcast. (recordings exist). |
|
|
May
20 |
Charlie
Parker, Fats Navarro and the Bud Powell Trio. Birdland,
NYC, WJZ radio broadcast. (recordings exist). |
|
|
May
21 |
Charlie
Parker, Fats Navarro and the Bud Powell Trio. Birdland,
NYC, WJZ radio broadcast. (recordings exist). |
|
|
July
6 |
Fats
Navarro dies at Bellevue Hospital, NYC. |
|
|
July
13 |
Fats
Navarro's funeral takes place at the LeRoy Butler
Funeral Home on 177 West 126th Street in NYC. Charlie Parker attends. He is
buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Linden, New Jersey. |