| Fats Bud-Klook-Sonny-Kinney | ||||
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| Released | 1955 | |||
| Recorded | September 6, 1946; October 28, 1947 | |||
| Genre | Bebop | |||
| Length | 44:47 | |||
| Label | Savoy | |||
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Fats Bud-Klook-Sonny-Kinney, also titled in some releases as Memorial, is an album by Fats Navarro for Savoy Records that was released posthumously. [1] [2]
Jazz critic Stephen Cook described the album as "essential" and described it as "one of several incredible sessions Navarro was able to produce in just over a two-year period during the late '40s." [1]
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
All compositions by Sonny Stitt unless otherwise stated
Tadley Ewing Peake Dameron was an American jazz composer, arranger, and pianist.
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. Following a series of studio sessions with leading bebop figures including Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Kenny Clarke, he became ill with tuberculosis and died at the age of 26. Despite the short duration of his career, he had a strong stylistic influence on trumpet players who rose to fame in later decades, including Clifford Brown and Lee Morgan.
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Groovin' High is a 1955 compilation album of studio sessions by jazz composer and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. The Rough Guide to Jazz describes the album as "some of the key bebop small-group and big band recordings."
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Bouncing with Bud is a 1946 jazz standard by American pianist Bud Powell and Gil Fuller, which features the saxophone of Sonny Stitt and the trumpet of Kenny Dorham. It was originally recorded on 23 August 1946 as "Bebop in Pastel". In the key of B-flat major, the tune is a "nonblues theme whose form is A-A'-B-A' with an eight-bar interlude that is not played during the solos."
Modern Jazz Trumpets is an album released by Prestige Records in 1951 with music by four jazz trumpeters: Fats Navarro, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Kenny Dorham. The album was released on the 10" LP format and includes the first recordings by Davis for Prestige.
Two at the Top is an album by saxophonist/flautist Frank Wess and flugelhornist Johnny Coles, recorded and released on the Uptown label in 1983. The original album was rereleased on CD in 2012 along with one additional number and five alternate takes and a bonus live disc recorded in 1988.
The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 1 is a studio album by Fats Navarro and released posthumously by Blue Note Records. Material for the album came from record dates with a variety of musicians including Tadd Dameron, Ernie Henry, Wardell Gray, Charlie Rouse, and Bud Powell. The music was recorded on three sessions, with one coming from 1947, 1948, and 1949 respectively.
The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 2 is a studio album by Fats Navarro and released posthumously by Blue Note Records. Personnel varied through the studio sessions that made up the album but among the most notable were Wardell Gray, Bud Powell, and Howard McGhee.
Live at the Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt Paris is a live album by Dameronia, a jazz ensemble founded by Don Sickler and Philly Joe Jones that performed the compositions and arrangements of Tadd Dameron. It was recorded on May 30, 1989, roughly four years after Jones's death, in a suburb of Paris, and was released in 1994 by the Soul Note label. The ensemble is conducted by Sickler, who also appears on trumpet, and features saxophonists Clifford Jordan, Cecil Payne, and Frank Wess, trumpeter Virgil Jones, trombonist Benny Powell, pianist Walter Davis Jr., double bassist Larry Ridley, and drummer Kenny Washington.