Howard McGhee/Fats Navarro

[mrjazzman]

Can anyone tell me on which sessions/Lp's/CD's can I find trumpet battles between Howard McGhee and Fats Navarro. Thanks.........

[paul secor]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000005H0W/ref=sr_1_4_olp?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1271713192&sr=1-4&condition=used

[BillF]

As for LPs, I still have those classic Blue Note albums:

[Gheorghe]

As for LPs, I still have those classic Blue Note albums:

Well, Howard McGhee was a very important influence for Fats. I read in the book about Fats Navarro, that in later years, McGhee was a bit yealous on the publicity Fats got. Anyway, there´s some great playing of them both. Originally it was planned that Tadd Dameron would play piano on that session, but during that time (october 1948), the collaboration betweend Tadd and Fats came to it´s end. Another trivia about that session comes from an interview Howard McGhee did for Valerie Wilmer, where he said "we made 1,200 dollars each and by the end of the day Fats didn´t have 10 cents left. He kept asking me for money and I just couldn´t believe it..."

[Cliff Englewood]

As for LPs, I still have those classic Blue Note albums:

I paid a fair bit of cash to buy both of those in 24bit mini-lp format, needless to say I don't regret it, they're real treasures, should be in everyones collection etc, etc.

[Brad]

As for LPs, I still have those classic Blue Note albums:

I paid a fair bit of cash to buy both of those in 24bit mini-lp format, needless to say I don't regret it, they're real treasures, should be in everyones collection etc, etc.

Amen to that brother.

[BillF]

Another trivia about that session comes from an interview Howard McGhee did for Valerie Wilmer, where he said "we made 1,200 dollars each and by the end of the day Fats didn´t have 10 cents left. He kept asking me for money and I just couldn´t believe it..."

Sadly, we can guess what he was spending it on!

Edited April 22, 2010 by BillF