NAVARRO, THEODORE (FATS
). Jazz trumpeter ( in Key West, Florida; in New York, New York). He studied piano as a child and began study of the trumpet when he was thirteen. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Key West, Florida. During his high-school years he played with local groups; thereafter he left the city to join Isaac (Snookum
) Russell, with whom he toured (1941-42). During the 1940s he played with various...