Original photograph of Fats Navarro performing at the Royal Roost in New York, 1948

N.p.: N.p., 1948. Original photograph of Fats Navarro, struck from the original negative and signed by jazz photographer Herman Leonard and labeled by him: "Fats Navarro Royal Roost NYC 1948" along the bottom margin.

Photographer Herman Leonard captured numerous iconic images of jazz luminaries over his lengthy career. His photographs are held at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC, and represent a valuable and unique record of the jazz scene from the late 1940s to the early 1990s.

From the collection of jazz photographer Jeffrey Kliman, friend to Leonard in the 1970s and 1980s.

14 x 11 inches. Fine condition. (Inventory #: 165715)