Fats Navarro - The Things We Did Last Summer

At the height of the bebop era in jazz, many aficionados felt that Fats Navarro was the best of the trumpet players. His career seemed assured. Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis (among others) were still productive decades later, but Navarro died on this date in 1950 at twenty-six. He appears in Charles Mingus's autobiography as a character somehow both dreamlike and substantial, which sort of also describes this solo.