Fats Waller

Thomas Wright Waller·アメリカ合衆国アメリカ合衆国· New York

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.

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Hot Piano

1941

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Waller At The Console, The Harmful Little Armful, Playing Spirituals At The Grand Organ

1941

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This Is The Army

1942

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Waller On The Ivories

1943

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Thomas 'Fats' Waller

1965

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Fats Waller On The Air

1970

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Last Testament: His Final Recordings

1972

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The Undiscovered Fats Waller

1973

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Mostly Blues = Mayormente Blues

1974

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Messin' Around

1976

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Fine Arabian Stuff

1979

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Fats Waller Piano Solos Vol 1

1980

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Fats Waller Piano Solos 1929-1941 Vol. 2

1982

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Con Swing Vol. 28

1982

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Live At The Yacht Club

1983

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The Jugglin' Jive Of Fats Waller 'Live' Volume 3

1985

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The One And Only Thomas 'Fats' Waller

1991

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Lulu's Back In Town

1995

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Ain't Misbehavin' (Highlights)

1996

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Jazz Giants

1996

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More Radio Rarities

1999

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The Gods Are In The House

2001

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Then You'll Remember Me

2002

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Plays, Sings And Talks

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Fats Waller Organ / Piano Vol. 2

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Here 'Tis

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Rare Fats Waller (16 Previously Unreleased Performances)

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Young Fats At The Organ Vol.3 1926-1929

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Fats Waller Al órgano

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The Rarest Fats Waller Volume One

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Recordando A Fats Waller

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Happy Fats

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Young Fats At The Organ Vol.3 1926-1929

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