Fats Bud-Klook-Sonny-Kinney

Fats Bud-Klook-Sonny-Kinney, also titled in some releases as Memorial, is an album by Fats Navarro for Savoy Records that was released posthumously.

Reception

Jazz critic Stephen Cook described the album as "essential" and described it as "one of several incredible sessions Navarro was able to produce in just over a two-year period during the late '40s."

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Stitt unless otherwise stated

1. "Boppin' a Riff" – 5:31
2. "Fat Boy" (Navarro) – 5:41
3. "Be-Bop Carol" (Tadd Dameron) – 2:56
4. "Gone With the Wind" (Herb Magidson, Allie Wrubel) – 3:08
5. "Serenade to a Square" (Bud Powell) – 2:33
6. "Good Kick" – 2:36
7. "Everything's Cool" – 5:48
8. "Webb City" (Powell) – 5:36
9. "Tadd Walk" (Dameron) – 2:50
10. "That Someone Must Be You" (Earl Hardy) – 2:59
11. "Seven Up" – 2:27
12. "Blues in Bebop" (Kenny Dorham) – 2:42

Personnel

• Fats Navarro – trumpet
• Kenny Dorham – trumpet
• Sonny Stitt – alto saxophone
• Ernie Henry – alto saxophone
• Morris Lane – tenor saxophone
• Eddie DeVerteuil – baritone saxophone
• Bud Powell – piano
• Tadd Dameron – piano
• Curley Russell – bass
• Al Hall – bass
• Kenny Clarke – drums
• Kay Penton – vocal
• Gil Fuller – arranger

References