I love Fats Navarro. He is a Founding Father of the trumpet. In the words of the great Jimmy Heath: Fats ate Miles up every night. Miles couldn’t outswing him, he couldn’t outpower him, he couldn’t outsweet him, he couldn’t do anything except take that whipping on every tune.  Every trumpet player should study Fats. His recordings […]

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