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Fats Navarro

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Jazz

Fats Navarro is a Jazz act. Their sound grew out of Pepper Adams, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell and Sonny Stitt. Those roots explain a lot about how Fats Navarro arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Dizzy Gillespie, Thad Jones, Art Farmer, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Woody Shaw, Lee Morgan, Miles Davis, Art Blakey and Clifford Brown, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 31 connections around Fats Navarro, reaching back through Pepper Adams and forward to Woody Shaw. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Fats NavarroPepper AdamsCharlie ParkerDizzy GillespieBud PowellSonny StittBenny GoodmanBilly EckstineKenny ClarkeWoody ShawLee MorganMiles DavisArt BlakeyClifford BrownArt FarmerJ. J. JohnsonDizzy GillespieThad JonesArt FarmerMiles DavisFreddie HubbardThelonious MonkHank JonesHorace Silver

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Fats Navarro connections

Fats Navarro grew out of Pepper Adams, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Bud Powell, shares an orbit with Dizzy Gillespie, Thad Jones, Art Farmer and Miles Davis, went on to shape Woody Shaw, Lee Morgan, Miles Davis and Art Blakey. 31 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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