The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 2
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| The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 2 | ||||
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| Released | 1957 | |||
| Recorded | September 13, 1948; October 11, 1948; August 9, 1949 | |||
| Genre | Bebop | |||
| Length | 35:27 | |||
| Label | Blue Note | |||
| Fats Navarro chronology | ||||
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The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Vol. 2 is a studio album by Fats Navarro and released posthumously by Blue Note Records.[1] Personnel varied through the studio sessions that made up the album but among the most notable were Wardell Gray, Bud Powell, and Howard McGhee.[2]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |  [3] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz | [4] |
According to jazz critic Stephen Cook, "Navarro runs the gamut here, turning in both high-flying solos and gracefully cool statements." He noted that the track listing and personnel of the album had varied between releases.[1]
The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album a full 4 stars, calling it and its companion volume "one of the peaks of the bebop movement and one of the essential modern-jazz records."[4]
Critic John Fordham described the two volumes as "essential Navarro, and essential bebop generally, featuring a string of dazzling themes illuminated by the trumpeter's glowing tone."[5]
Author Tom Piazza stated that the albums "show instantly what set Dameron's work apart," and commented: "Among bebop dates, these were really something special, full of carefully worked-out ensembles, introductions, and codas, yet still with plenty of stretching room for the soloists."[6]
Saxophonist and writer Benny Green noted Dameron's "ravishing tone" and "precise delivery," and called the recordings "a reminder of the grace of one of the earliest modern pioneers, a grace that was precocious because in the 1940s modernists had still not formulated their own conventions."[7]