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Fats Navarro

Fats Navarro
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Theodore "Fats" Navarro was an American jazz trumpet player and a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s. A native of Key West, Florida, he toured with big bands before achieving fame as a bebop trumpeter in New York.

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Who was born first?

Timeline

  1. Alicia de LarrochaMay 28, 1923 – September 25, 2009
  2. Dexter GordonFebruary 27, 1923 – April 1990
  3. Fats Navarro (this page)September 24, 1923 – July 7, 1950
  4. György LigetiMay 28, 1923 – June 12, 2006
  5. Hank WilliamsSeptember 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953
  6. Paddy ChayefskyJanuary 29, 1923 – August 1, 1981

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