The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 2
Studio album by Fats Navarro
Released	1957
Recorded	September 13, 1948; October 11, 1948; August 9, 1949
Genre	Bebop
Length	35:27
Label	Blue 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]

Contents

• Reception
• Track listing
• Personnel
• References

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
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

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

• Fats Navarro – trumpet
• Howard McGhee – trumpet (7, 10–11)
• Ernie Henry – alto saxophone (7, 10–11)
• Allen Eager – tenor saxophone (1–6)
• Wardell Gray – tenor saxophone (1–6)
• Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone (8–9)
• Milt Jackson – vibraphone, piano (7, 10–11)
• Bud Powell – piano (8–9)
• Tadd Dameron – piano (1–6)
• Curley Russell – bass (1–7, 10–11)
• Tommy Potter – bass (8–9)
• Kenny Clarke – drums (1–7, 10–11)
• Roy Haynes – drums (8–9)
• Chino Pozo – bongos (3–4) ^[2]

References