Thomas (Fats) Waller was an American jazz pianist and composer. It is generally assumed that he wrote more than 450 tunes, many of them unpublished and many with themes or phrases duplicated in his other compositions. Some of his earliest works were adaptations of existing folk tunes, blues or ditties. His grandfather, Adolf, had been all over the South as a pianist, and his mother, Adeline Locket Waller, sang and played both the piano and organ. His father was pastor of a Harlem Baptist church resultantly his musical education was divide between classics and church requirements.
He wrote his first rag at fifteen and from then on managed to compose a huge number of songs, the music for three Broadway shows and to make nearly 500 records in just twenty years. Through out the 1930s and early 1940s Fats was a star of radio and night-clubs, and toured Europe. He unexpectedly died on board a train near Kansas City, Missouri of pneumonia in 1943, no doubt in consequence of his legendary appetite for life and burning the candle at both ends.
For more a about Fats, please check out activities as a composerTitle | Remarks | Supplier |
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Ain't Misbehavin' | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Aint Misbehavin' | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
At the Piano | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
The Best of the War Years | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Breakin' the Ice: The Early Years, Part 1 | |||
Career Perspective 1922-1943 | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Centennial Collection | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Classic Jazz from Rare Piano Rolls | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Complete Associated Transcription Session 1935-1939 | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
⇑ The Definitive Fats Waller Vol. 1: His Piano, His Rhythm | |||
Fats & His Buddies | |||
Fats at the Organ | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Fats Waller - Greatest Hits | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Fats Waller at the Organ, Vol. 3: 1926-1929 [Brown Cover] | |||
Fats Waller Sings | |||
Fats Waller: 1922-26 | |||
Fats Waller: 1926-27 | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Fats Waller: 1927-29 | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Fats Waller: 1928-42 | |||
⇑ Fats Waller: 1929 | |||
Fats Waller: 1934-35 | |||
Fats Waller: 1935 Transcriptions | |||
Fats Waller: 1936 | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Fats Waller: 1936-37 | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Fats Waller: 1938-39 | |||
Fats Waller: 1939 | |||
Fats Waller: 1939-40 | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Fats Waller: 1941 | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Fats Waller: 1942-43 | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
⇑ Fats Waller: Portrait Vol.1 | |||
Fats Waller: Portrait Vol.2 | |||
Fats Waller: The Cream Series | |||
Fats Waller: Vol. 1- Piano Masterworks | |||
Fats Waller: Vol. 2 | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Fine Arabian Stuff | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Golden Greats | |||
Handful of Fats | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
A Handful of Keys | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Have a Little Dream | |||
⇑ Honeysuckle Rose | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Part 2 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down: The Early Years | |||
In London | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
The Indispensable Fats Waller Vol. 9-10 | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Joint Is Jumpin' | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Last Testament, His Final Recordings | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Last Years 1940-1943 | |||
Live at the Yacht Club | |||
Low Down Papa | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Middle Years Part I (1936-38) | |||
⇑ More Radio Rarities | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
New York to Camden to Los Angeles: 1929-1943 [LIVE] | |||
Piano Masterworks Vol. 2 (1929-1943) | |||
Piano Solos-Turn on the Heat | |||
Sugar Blues | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Us on a Bus | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
The Very Best of Fats Waller | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
The Very Best of Fats Waller | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Yacht Club Swing & Other Radio | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) | ||
Yacht Club Swing 1938 | |||
⇑ You Rascal You | CD(s) & MP3 Album(s) |