THE COMPOSITIONS OF THEODORE "FATS" NAVARRO

Fat Boy Theodore Navarro 1946	12 (Blues) Bb mm. c. 200
Fat Girl [Big Lady]^[1] Theodore Navarro 1947	32AABA (I Got Rhythm with Honeysuckle Rose-bridge) F mm. c. 195
Ice Freezes Red Tadd Dameron - Theodore Navarro^[2] 1947	32ABA'C (Indiana) Ab mm. c. 250
Eb Pob Theodore Navarro^[3] - Leo Parker 1947	32AABA (I Got Rhythm) Bb mm. c. 195
Goin' To Minton's Theodore Navarro 1947	32AABA (I Got Rhythm) Bb mm. c. 255
Nostalgia Theodore Navarro 1947	32 ABAC (Out Of Nowhere) G Mm. c. 150
Barry's Bop [Fats Flats]^[4] Theodore Navarro 1947	32AABA (What Is This Thing Called Love) Bb mm. c. 235
Bebop Romp [Rebop Romp]^[5] Theodore Navarro 1947	32ABAC (Fine And Dandy) Ab mm. c. 225
Fats Blows Theodore Navarro 1947	32AABA (Lady Be Good) F mm. c. 250

The Skunk Howard McGhee - Theodore Navarro^[6] 1948	12 (Blues) Db mm. c.160
Boperation Howard McGhee - Theodore Navarro 1948	32ABCA (original chord sequence?) F mm. c.170
Double Talk Howard McGhee – Theodore Navarro^[7] 1948	32AABA (Lady Be Good) F mm. c. 220
Infatuation Theodore Navarro^[8] 1949	32ABAC (Gone With The Wind) Ab mm. c. 60

In the BMI files Fats Navarro is registered for Wailing Wail, too. We have no doubt that this tune is Don Lanphere’s composition alone.

In the BMI files Fats Navarro further is registered for, Eskimo Kiss Polka. This is a mistake. The songwriter/composers of this tune really are Ted Navarre and Johnny Cale, with no connections to Fats Navarro.

It should also be mentioned here that John Lewis about 1948 wrote a tune for Fats Navarro titled Navarize. This tune probably was on the repertoire of the Dameron group in 1948. Dameron played it titled Miles at a broadcast February 26, 1949, with Miles Davis on trumpet. Modern Jazz Quartet recorded this tune titled Milano December 23, 1954.

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^[1] The alternative title was used in a Radio Broadcast with Lionel Hampton May 8, 1948.

^[2] The credit to Fats Navarro may solely come from the fact that he was the leader of this recording date.

^[3] The credit to Fats Navarro may solely come from the fact that he was the leader of this recording date.

^[4] The alternative title was used in a Radio Broadcast, Bands For Bonds November 11, 1947, before the tune was commercially recorded

^[5] The alternative title was used on some commercial issues

^[6] The BMI files only credits McGhee. The conventional crediting is McGhee-Navarro. The credit to Fats Navarro may solely come from the fact that he was the initiator of this recording date.

^[7] The BMI files only credits McGhee. The conventional crediting is McGhee-Navarro. The credit to Fats Navarro may solely come from the fact that he was the initiator of this recording date.

^[8] Registered so in the BMI files. The recorded tune has no written line. The intro though, has the character of a premeditated line.