Fats Waller - 1942-1943 (CD) (US Import)
Fats Waller - 1942-1943 (CD) (US Import)
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Imported from the USA
- Artist
- Fats Waller
- EAN/UPC
- 3307517109729
- Product Type
- CD
- Cat No
- CLASSICS 1097
- Released
- 1999
- Pressing
- France
- Studio
- Classics
- Styles
- Swing
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Description
Fats Waller — 1942-1943
Format: CD • Label: Classics (11) (CLASSICS 1097) • Released: 1999 • Pressing: France • Genre: Swing
Tracklist:
1. We Need A Little Love
2. You Must Be Losing Your Mind
3. Really Fine
4. The Jitterbug Waltz
5. By The Light Of The Silvery Moon
6. Swing Out To Victory
7. Up Jumped You With Love
8. Romance A La Mode
9. That's What The Well Dressed Man In Harlem Will Wear
10. That Ain't Right
11. Moppin' & Boppin'
12. Ain't Misbehavin'
13. Ain't Misbehavin' / Two Sleepy People
14. Slightly Less Than Wonderful / There's A Gal In My Life
15. This Is So Nice It Must Be Illegal / Martinique
16. Waller Jive
17. Hallelujah
18. That's What The Bird Said To Me
19. Reefer Man
20. Solitude
21. Bouncin' On A V-Disc
22. Sometimes I Feel Like A motherless Child
Imported from the USA.
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Watch & listen
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Fats Waller - The Jitterbug Waltz
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Fats Waller - Ain't Misbehavin'
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About the artist
American jazz pianist, organist, composer and comedic entertainer (born 21 May 1904 in Harlem, New York, USA - died 15 December 1943 in a Santa-Fé-Express near Kansas City, Missouri, USA (bronchial pneumonia).
One of the most popular jazz performers of his era.
Thomas Wright Waller was the youngest of four children born to Adaline Locket Waller and the Reverend Edward Martin Waller. He started playing the piano when he was six and graduated to the organ of his father's church four years later. At the age of fourteen he was playing the organ at Harlem's Lincoln Theater and within twelve months he had composed his first rag. Waller's first piano solos ("Muscle Shoals Blues" and "Birmingham Blues") were recorded on October 1922 in Race Records when he was 18 years old.
He was the prize pupil, and later friend and colleague, of stride pianist James P. Johnson. Fats Waller was the son of a preacher and learned to play the organ in church with his mother. Overcoming opposition from his clergyman father, Waller became a professional pianist at 15, working in cabarets and theaters. In 1918 he won a talent contest playing Johnson's "Carolina Shout", a song he learned from watching a player piano play it.
Waller contracted pneumonia and died on a cross country train trip near Kansas City, Missouri on December 15, 1943, after making a final recording session with an interracial group in Detroit that included white trumpeter Don Hirleman. He was on his way back to Hollywood for more film work, after the smash success of "Stormy Weather". Coincidentally, as the train with the body of Waller stopped in Kansas City, so stopped a train with his dear friend Louis Armstrong on board.
Thomas "Fats" Waller was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.
Source: Discogs