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The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 2

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The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 2
Studio album by
Released1957
RecordedSeptember 13, 1948; October 11, 1948; August 9, 1949
GenreBebop
Length35:27
LabelBlue Note
Fats Navarro chronology
The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 1
(1957)
The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 2
(1957)
One Night in Birdland
(1977)

The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 2 is a studio album by Fats Navarro and released posthumously by Blue Note Records.[1] Personnel varied through the studio sessions that made up the album but among the most notable were Wardell Gray, Bud Powell, and Howard McGhee.[2]

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[4]

According to jazz critic Stephen Cook, "Navarro runs the gamut here, turning in both high-flying solos and gracefully cool statements." He noted that the track listing and personnel of the album had varied between releases.[1]

The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album a full 4 stars, calling it and its companion volume "one of the peaks of the bebop movement and one of the essential modern-jazz records."[4]

Critic John Fordham described the two volumes as "essential Navarro, and essential bebop generally, featuring a string of dazzling themes illuminated by the trumpeter's glowing tone."[5]

Author Tom Piazza stated that the albums "show instantly what set Dameron's work apart," and commented: "Among bebop dates, these were really something special, full of carefully worked-out ensembles, introductions, and codas, yet still with plenty of stretching room for the soloists."[6]

Saxophonist and writer Benny Green noted Dameron's "ravishing tone" and "precise delivery," and called the recordings "a reminder of the grace of one of the earliest modern pioneers, a grace that was precocious because in the 1940s modernists had still not formulated their own conventions."[7]

Track listing

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All compositions by Tadd Dameron unless otherwise stated

  1. "Lady Bird" (alternate take) – 2:53
  2. "Lady Bird" – 2:52
  3. "Jahbero" (alternate take) – 3:03
  4. "Jahbero" – 2:56
  5. "Symphonette" (alternate take) – 3:07
  6. "Symphonette" – 3:09
  7. "Double Talk" (alternate take) (Howard McGhee, Navarro) – 5:22
  8. "Bouncing With Bud" (alternate take) (Bud Powell) – 3:07[8]
  9. "Dance Of The Infidels" (alternate take) (Powell) – 2:52[8]
  10. "The Skunk" (alternate take) (McGhee, Navarro) – 2:59
  11. "Boperation" (McGhee, Navarro) – 3:07

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Fats Navarro - The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 2 Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic, retrieved 2023-12-28
  2. ^ a b "Fats Navarro Discography". www.jazzdisco.org. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 6. Oxford University Press. p. 131.
  4. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (1994). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP and Cassette. Penguin Books. pp. 964–965.
  5. ^ Fordham, John (1993). Jazz on CD: The Essential Guide. Kyle Cathie Limited. p. 208.
  6. ^ Piazza, Tom (1995). The Guide to Classic Recorded Jazz. University of Iowa Press. p. 69.
  7. ^ Green, Benny (1973). Drums in My Ears. Davis-Poynter. p. 34.
  8. ^ a b The masters from this session were released under Bud Powell's name for the album The Amazing Bud Powell