A comic showman who delighted crowds with his playful stage antics, Fats Waller was the beloved "clown prince" of jazz during a golden era of the genre, leading up to World War II. Yet Waller's talent ...
A.B. SPELLMAN, National Endowment for the Arts: That was some knuckle-breaking piano by Fats Waller, Murray. Now Fats hung out with some of the hardest and most competitive pianists in the world. Yet ...
Sometimes referred to as 'the greatest comedian who ever played jazz,' Fats' appeal was as much visual as it was musical. Fats Waller's jazz legacy is an unlikely combination of pianist, composer, ...
Nobody embraced the pleasure principle with more gusto than Fats Waller, the genius piano player, songwriter, singer, satirist and sybarite, whose storied consumption of food and booze was matched by ...
A.B. SPELLMAN, National Endowment for the Arts: That was some knuckle-breaking piano by Fats Waller, Murray. Now Fats hung out with some of the hardest and most competitive pianists in the world. Yet ...
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