Search results for "Fats Waller"

Fats Waller: The Joint is Jumpin' (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

The reason Fats Waller was so huge (6' tall, 300 lbs., shoe size 15) was because there were two of him in there. One ...

Fats Waller: Your Feet's Too Big (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music May 17, 08

Here is the Harlem rent party side of Fats Waller. Full-bodied stride piano is mixed in with singing, shtick and com...

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Fats Waller: My Feelings Are Hurt (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music September 04, 08

Fats Waller's colorful story could start with his days as a teen prodigy winning his high school's talent contest pla...

Fats Domino: The Fat Man (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 05, 09

Those who contend that rock 'n' roll was invented in New Orleans will present this track as Exhibit 1A for the prosec...

Fats Waller: Two Sleepy People (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music October 08, 09

"Two Sleepy People" may the most charming song Hoagy Carmichael and Frank Loesser ever wrote. Even today, its simple ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HOAGY CARMICHAEL

Hoagy Carmichael was born in Bloomington, Indiana on November 22, 1899. His given name, Hoagland, derived fr...

Fats Waller: Florida Flo (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music November 19, 07

Like other jazz greats (Armstrong, Holiday), Fats Waller has been criticized for doing material that was beneath him....

Fats Waller: Honeysuckle Rose (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

When Roaring '20s Chicago gangsters abducted Fats Waller to sing "Happy Birthday" to Al Capone, they showed more musi...

Fats Waller: The Sheik Of Araby (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music September 02, 09

Fats Waller led a big band for a short period in the late 30s. Like Ray Charles would do years later, he built the ba...

Fats Waller: African Ripples (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music October 28, 07

Fats Waller’s combo sides sound like primal party music, recorded at the heat of the festivities, just before the pol...

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Fats Waller: The Minor Drag (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 16, 07

This original, from Waller’s first self-led session, foreshadows the wonderfully spontaneous recordings he made ...

Fats Waller: Ain't Misbehavin' (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 22, 07

He doesn't sing here, but Waller's skills as pianist and composer are amply displayed. While Fats didn't invent the H...

Fats Waller: Numb Fumblin' (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 12, 09

Waller was the most overtly humorous of any serious jazz musician. Nothing could be more ironic than his title for t...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ETHAN IVERSON ON STRIDE PIANO

Editor's Note: Music fans, jazz-oriented or otherwise, may know Ethan Iverson solely as the pianist in The Bad Plus—t...

Fletcher Henderson: Whiteman Stomp (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music November 06, 07

Like an ace reporter, Fletcher Henderson always got there first. Three months before self-crowned "King of Jazz" Paul...

Louis Armstrong: (What Did I Do To Be So) Black and Blue (1955) (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 23, 09

That remarkable songwriter, musician and world-class character Thomas "Fats" Waller wrote this tune for the 1929 Broa...

Waller, Fats (Thomas Wright) posted in Encyclopedia June 19, 08

Pianist and organist Fats Waller embodied the ebullient spirit of Harlem between the World Wars. While best known for...

Ray Bryant: Ain't Misbehavin' (Rating: 82/100) posted in Music December 19, 08

Ray Bryant made his mark in the jazz world with some very soulful piano playing, mixing a dose of modernism with a do...

Coleman Hawkins: Honeysuckle Rose (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 07, 07

This arrangement of Thomas “Fats” Waller's classic opus is the unmistakable work of Benny Carter; the opening saxopho...

Dizzy Gillespie: Jitterbug Waltz (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music February 05, 08

When Norman Granz founded Pablo Records to help support "older" jazz musicians, Gillespie was a natural choice for a ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: A DIZZY DOZEN GILLESPIE CLASSICS

From his seminal work with Charlie Parker to his collaborations with Chano Pozo, Dizzy Gillespie continually br...

Bob McHugh: Jitterbug Waltz (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music December 09, 08

There's just something about that lovely series of descending notes in "Jitterbug Waltz" that gets to me. Though I'm ...

Sidney Bechet: Ain't Misbehavin' (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 20, 09

With the one and only Sidney Bechet joined by the great pianist Earl "Fatha" Hines, virtuoso cornetist Rex Stewart (a...

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