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- NAME: Fats Navarro
- OCCUPATION: Saxophonist, Trumpet Player
- BIRTH DATE: September 24, 1923
- DEATH DATE: July 07, 1950
- EDUCATION: What instrument did jazz musician Fats Navarro play?
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Key West, Florida
- PLACE OF DEATH: New York, New York
- Originally: Theodore Navarro
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African-American jazz trumpet virtuoso Fats Navarro was one of the founders of bebop. He struggled with a heroin addiction and tuberculosis.
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Fats Navarro, born September 24, 1923, in Key West, Florida, first performed as a tenor saxophonist in Miami, and went on to play trumpet in big bands. He then worked and recorded with other well-known band leaders, and eventually Tadd Dameron. By then, however, Navarro's struggle with heroin addiction and progressive illness with tuberculosis caused him to perform less often.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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