Fats Navarro biography

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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.