#Tad Dameron

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Fats Navarro And Tadd Dameron | The Complete Blue Note And Capitol Recordings

Fats Navarro was a jazz trumpeter, and Tadd Dameron was a jazz pianist.  Both of these musicians were important (although somewhat overlooked) where the development of bebop music was concerned.  This boxset (2 discs) collects the music they recorded for Blue Note Records, as well as Capitol.

I already had a few of these tracks (namely the ones that Fats Navarro recorded on The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1), but most of these were new to me.  These tracks are short, sweet bebop tunes with varying ensembles recorded throughout the 40s and 50s, including Tadd Dameron with Fatts Navarro, Tadd Dameron with Miles Davis, the Howard McGhee-Fats Navarro Sextet, and Benny Goodman with Fats Navarro.  At any rate, this is a superior collection of fast, peppy bebop by two of the important progenitors of the genre that often get overlooked in favor of Dizzy Gillespie and Bud Powell.  This boxset is well worth the listen.

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Dizzy Gillespie, Tad Dameron, Hank Jones, Mary Lou Williams and Milt Orent.