Title: Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1
Artist: Waller, Fats
Label: JSP Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 788065902728
Genre: Jazz Traditional
Release Date: 2007-06-05
Number of Discs: 4
Additional Details: REMASTERED

Thomas 'Fats' Waller was born in New York in 1904. His musical talents were obvious early - as was his charm - aged six, Fats talked his way into unlimited access to a neighbor's piano. His older brother Bob persuaded the family to buy their own instrument. Fats was sent to lessons, but soon dropped out - he could learn a tune simply by watching his teacher play it. It was at school that Fats first sensed the fun of playing to an audience. He found that he could easily work a crowd into a frenzy of stamping and clapping with a combination of humorous asides, knowing winks and artistry. By Fats' fourteenth birthday it was obvious that his destiny lay in music. He quit school so that he could get a job to finance piano lessons. Before long, he gravitated to a food delivery company that specialised in the discreet supply of booze. This gave him an entree into Harlem's clubs, where he was able to watch piano idols like James P Johnson. Fats inveigled himself into the Lincoln movie theatre. He sat in for both the pianist who accompanied the movies and the intermission organist. When the organist fell sick, Fats - then 15 - stepped in. Soon after, he was offered the job permanently. In 1920 Fats met James P Johnson who recognised the young man's talent. Johnson coached Fats, introduced him to the jazz fraternity and got him gigs. By the time the first two tracks here were cut, Fats had married. The producer on the session had brought the sheet music for Muscle Shoals Blues to the studio - so this might have been the first time Fats had seen it. Already the mature artist is on display. Fats was asked to improvise a B-side. Birmingham Blues was the result. Not a bad morning's work. Thus started a career in entertainment, which almost never faltered. Fats himself was in a continuous state of forward motion, his energy undimmed until shortly before the end. But that's the future. In the meantime we have a heap of supremely entertaining music to enjoy.

Tracks:
1.1 Muscle Shoals Blues
1.2 Birmingham Blues
1.3 'Taint Nobody's Bus'ness If I Do
1.4 You Got Ev'rything a Sweet Mama Needs But Me
1.5 Mama's Got the Blues
1.6 Last Go Round Blues
1.7 Stingaree Blues
1.8 You Can't Do What My Last Man Did
1.9 Sister Kate
1.10 You Can't Do What My Last Man Did
1.11 Trixie Blues
1.12 I'm Cert'NY Gonna See 'Bout That
1.13 Squabbling Blues
1.14 In Harlem's Araby
1.15 You Don't Know My Mind Blues
1.16 West Indies Blues
1.17 Maybe Someday
1.18 (I'm Gonna See You) When Your Troubles Are Just Like Mine
1.19 You Get Mad
1.20 What's the Matter Now?
1.21 Nobody Knows de Trouble I See
1.22 Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray
1.23 Ain't Got Nobody to Grind Ma Coffee
1.24 Mama's Losin' a Mighty Good Chance
1.25 The Henderson Stomp
1.26 The Chant
2.1 St Louis Blues
2.2 Lenox Avenue Blues
2.3 What Do You Know About That
2.4 Shut Your Mouth
2.5 Soothin' Syrup Stomp
2.6 Sloppy Water Blues
2.7 Loveless Love
2.8 Messin' Around with the Blues
2.9 The Rusty Pail
2.10 Stompin' the Bug
2.11 Hog-Maw Stomp
2.12 Blue Black Bottom Stomp
2.13 Whiteman Stomp
2.14 I'm Coming Virginia
2.15 Preach the Word
2.16 I'll Just Stand and Ring My Hands and Cry
2.17 True Friendship
2.18 The Christians' Trouble Is Ended
2.19 Sugar
2.20 Sugar
2.21 Beale Street Blues
2.22 Beale Street Blues
2.23 I'm Going to See My Ma
2.24 'Fats' Waller Stomp
2.25 Savannah Blues
3.1 Won't You Take Me Home
3.2 My Old Daddy's Got a Brand New Way to Love
3.3 Anything That Happens Just Pleases Me
3.4 I've Got the Joogie Blues
3.5 Florence
3.6 Gone But Not Forgotten
3.7 You Live on in Memory
3.8 Bye-Bye Florence
3.9 He's Gone Away
3.10 I Ain't Got Nobody
3.11 The Digah's Stomp
3.12 Red Hot Dan
3.13 Geechee
3.14 Please Take Me Out of Jail
3.15 Back in Your Own Back Yard
3.16 Nobody Knows How Much I Love You
3.17 What's the Use of Being Alone?
3.18 Original Blues
3.19 Willow Tree
3.20 'Sippi
3.21 Thou Swell
3.22 Persian Rug
3.23 Chicago Blues
3.24 Mournful Tho'ts
4.1 You Can't Do What My Last Man Did
4.2 Trixie Blues
4.3 St Louis Blues
4.4 What Do You Know About That
4.5 Shut Your Mouth
4.6 Soothin' Syrup Stomp
4.7 Sloppy Water
4.8 Messin' Around with the Blues
4.9 The Rusty Pail
4.10 Stompin' the Bug
4.11 Hog-Maw Stomp
4.12 'Fats' Waller Stomp
4.13 Savannah Blues
4.14 Won't You Take Me Home
4.15 My Old Daddy's Got a Brand New Way to Love
4.16 Anything That Happens Just Pleases Me
4.17 I've Got the Joogie Blues
4.18 He's Gone Away
4.19 The Digah's Stomp
4.20 Red Hot Dan
4.21 Geechee
4.22 Please Take Me Out of Jail
4.23 Willow Tree
4.24 'Sippi
4.25 Thou Swell

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