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	Fats Waller - Biography - AOL Music
		Not only was Fats Waller one of the greatest pianists jazz has ever known, he was also one of its most exuberantly funny entertainers -- and as so often happens, one facet tends to obscure the other.
		Waller also pioneered the use of the pipe organ and Hammond organ in jazz -- he called the pipe organ the "God box" -- adapting his irresistible sense of swing to the pedals and a staccato right hand while making imaginative changes of the registration.
		Thomas "Fats" Waller came from a Harlem household where his father was a Baptist lay preacher and his mother played piano and organ.
	music.aol.com /artist/fats-waller/7764/biography (772 words)

	Fats Waller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fats Waller was such an impressive and talented pianist that he came to the attention of the rich and famous—sometimes whether he wanted to or not.
		Fats Waller was in Chicago in 1926 and, upon leaving the building where he was performing, Waller was kidnapped by four men, who bundled him into a car and drove off.
		Waller also made a successful tour of the British Isles in the late 1930's, and appeared in one of the earliest BBC Television broadcasts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fats_Waller (860 words)

	Stride Piano.com - the only website completely dedicated to the art of Stride Piano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Harlem that Thomas Wright Waller was born into on May 21, 1904 was already well on its way to becoming the largest and most important urban community of African-Americans, though it had yet to acquire the cachet that would mark it as a center for African-American culture in the 1920s.
		Fats, as he would come to be known in his youth, was the youngest of the couple's five surviving children.
		Fats Waller as the ultimate entertainer was recognized by those thousands who snapped up his recordings as fast as they were released.
	www.stridepiano.com /bios/gen1/fats.html (450 words)

	Fats Waller - MSN Encarta
		Fats Waller (1904-1943), American musician, a highly influential pianist and the composer of many jazz classics.
		He was born Thomas Wright Waller on May 21, 1904, in New York City, the son of a Baptist minister.
		During the 1930s, Waller toured the United States and Europe with his own band, appeared on radio broadcasts and in Hollywood films, and recorded hundreds of songs on the Victor label.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761554894/Fats_Waller.html (281 words)

	PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Fats Waller
		Fats Waller's father, Edward Waller, was a Baptist lay preacher who conducted open air religious services in Harlem, at which as a child Waller played reed organ.
		Waller continued to broadcast as a singer and soloist throughout his life, including the long-running Fats Waller's Rhythm Club and Moon River (on which he played organ).
		Waller's Carnegie Hall debut was on April 27, 1928, where he was a piano soloist in a version of Johnson's fantasy Yamekraw for piano and orchestra.
	www.pbs.org /jazz/biography/artist_id_waller_fats.htm (933 words)

	Fats Waller : 1938-1939 - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fats Waller had become a bit of an institution by the end of 1938.
		Waller wrote it himself, he delights in presenting the tale, his band sings along, and the combined topics of seduction and entomology carry a bit more weight than the generic heartthrob ditties of Tin Pan Alley.
		Fats, who always managed to infect the band with his own contagious strain of mayhem, squeaks as high as his voice will go on the syllable "do-it." Wistful and calm, "Got No Time" is an ode to relaxation and whimsy, the deliberately slow testimony of a man who refuses to be bothered by anything.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,308003,00.html (729 words)

	The Music of Fats Waller
		Bluebird/RCA 2482-2-RB Fats Waller was a jazz pianist and organist of extraordinary facile technique and seemingly limitless invention.
		Waller's effortless execution of even the most difficult passages, however, was completely deceptive; it masked a brilliant and prodigious technique that enabled him to negotiate even the most complex gestures with perfection (see, e.g., his May 13, 1941 recording entitled "Honeysuckle Rose, à; la Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and Waller", matrix number 063890-1).
		Like all stride pianists, Waller developed a repertoire of "tricks"—brief, decorative figures (just a few notes in some instances), usually but not exclusively for the right hand, which could be used to produce a long line of artful decoration.
	newarkwww.rutgers.edu /ijs/fw/music.htm (436 words)

	Fats Waller - If You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It! Review
		Thomas "Fats" Waller was at the top of his field in at least five different roles: pianist, organist, composer, singer and comic personality.
		Waller was jazz's first organist, somehow swinging a huge pipe organ on records in 1926 and adapting to a more portable one in the 1940s.
		Waller recorded in a variety of settings during 1922-33, including as piano soloist, on the pipe organ and in small combos, taking very few vocals before 1931.
	www.avrev.com /music/revs/1006/fats_waller.shtml (748 words)

	Fats Waller Forever Digital Exhibit Main
		Fats Waller took it in stride and brought the rest of us with him.
		Waller's voluminous recordings made between 1922 and 1943 are the cornerstone of how he is remembered.
		But another rich source for Waller scholars is the collection of Ed Kirkeby, Waller's manager from 1938 until 1943 (he also managed the California Ramblers and the Deep River Boys).
	newarkwww.rutgers.edu /ijs/fw/fatsmain.htm (634 words)

	Fats Waller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Influenced by his grandfather, a violinist, and his mother, Waller was playing piano at students' concerts and organ in his father's church by the time he was 10 years old.
		In the early 20s, with the USA on the brink of the "jazz age", and Prohibition in force, Waller's piano playing was much in demand at rent-parties, bootleg joints, in cabaret and vaudeville.
		Waller lived in the middle of Harlem, until he really hit the big-time and moved to St. Albans, Long Island, where he installed a built-in Hammond organ.
	musicstore.mymmode.com /artist.do?artistID=3997 (1416 words)

	A story of Fats Waller
		Fats was in a hurry to learn these hits by heart, so he would place his fingers on the keys while the piano played automatically.
		Fats probably made his first recording in 1922, thanks to the intervention of Clarence Williams who also encouraged him to compose.
		In reaction to these practices, Fats and his friend would either leave the office in an outrage and rip up their creation, or accept the pathetic sum offered by the publisher and afterwards submit the same song to a second, and then a third publisher.
	perso.wanadoo.fr /jcarl.simonetti/fats_life.htm (1402 words)

	Fats Waller
		Fats Waller was the son of a preacher and learned to play the organ in church with his mother.
		Fats began his recording career in 1922 and made a living playing rent parties, as an organist at movie theatres and as an accompanist for various vaudeville acts.
		Fats Waller's big break occurred at a party given by George Gershwin in 1934, where he delighted the crowd with his piano playing and singing.
	www.redhotjazz.com /fats.html (446 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 Jazz Profiles - Fats Waller
		A giant of a man in every way, Waller was the outstanding exponent of the Harlem 'stride' style of jazz piano, drawing together the innovations of Willie 'The Lion' Smith and James P. Johnson into a coherent style, and taking it to the boundaries of technical possibility.
		As well as being a brilliant pianist, Waller was a witty and entertaining singer, a bandleader, a composer of hundreds of songs, and a pioneer of jazz broadcasting.
		Waller came to Britain in 1938 and 1939, making many discs in England, including his exquisite London Suite for solo piano, some hard-swinging band numbers with his 'Continental Rhythm', and some delicate duets with singer Adelaide Hall.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/jazz/profiles/fats_waller.shtml (430 words)

	Fats Waller
		From his physical presence (he had a huge girth and wore a size 15 shoe) and wildly arched eyebrows to his appetite for life and boisterous showmanship, Fats was an irresistible performer.
		By his early 20s, Fats was already composing and recording his own songs, giving organ pointers to Count Basie, and studying with pianist and composer Leopold Godowsky.
		Waller toured all over the country relentlessly between recordings, but never cared for the road or its discriminations.
	www.tuneresource.com /html/fats_waller.html (595 words)

	Fats Waller: Centennial Collection - PopMatters Music Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Waller's usual reedman was Gene Sedric, overrated as a jazzman by Hugues Panassie but abidingly interesting for a St. Louis clarinet style his contemporary Norman Mason had to abjure (playing in Singleton Palmer's band in their hometown) to meet public demand for a "Dixieland" style strictly of the tourist brochure.
		Waller's playing with Eddie Condon on the Commodore label is quiet and scarcely identifiable as his -- and perhaps not only because he was moonlighting.
		Waller was entranced by the organ (the "God-Box") in Notre Dame Cathedral, and in London he composed and recorded a suite of piano solos as well as (with Scottish, English and Caribbean musicians) more items on his standard recording pattern of the time.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/w/wallerfats-centennial.shtml (1440 words)

	Drop Me Off in Harlem
		Born and raised in Harlem, Thomas Wright Waller worked as a delivery boy for a delicatessen run by brothers Connie and George Immerman.
		His first paid gig was to accompany silent movies on the pipe organ at the Lincoln Theatre; from there, he moved on to playing at rent parties and in cabarets.
		Fusing elements of blues, classical music, boogie-woogie, and ragtime with stride, Waller fashioned a new sound that was uniquely his own.
	artsedge.kennedy-center.org /exploring/harlem/faces/waller_text.html (328 words)

	Jazz by Mail - Fats Waller
		Waller studied classical piano and organ before apprenticing himself to legendary Harlem stride pianist James P. Johnson.
		Thomas Fats Waller is one of the enduringly popular figure in American music.
		Today Thomas "Fats" Waller is best known as a comic personality from the 1930s who ...
	www.jazzbymail.com /artists/waller.html (296 words)

	Fats Waller and his Rhythm
		Waller's success on CBS convinced Victor to sign him to his first recording contract; Waller decided upon a six-piece band format.
		Waller's genius carried the band, enabling them to record as many as ten sides in a single day, often consisting mainly of new material.
		It should be noted that Waller's recording contract was not exclusive and that during this period he also recorded for Commodore.
	www.redhotjazz.com /Rhythm.html (742 words)

	Jass.com: Fats Waller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One of the most entertaining composer singer and pianists was Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller.
		During the twenties, one of the finest songwriting teams of the era was formed, when Waller was introduced to lyricist Andy Razaf.
		From 1930 til 1944, Fats made over five hundred recordings and he was recognized from the streets of Harlem to Danish nightclubs as he toured extensively and appeared on numerous radio broadcasts as well as in some Hollywood feature films and shorts.
	www.jass.com /Fats/fats.html (299 words)

	Fats Waller Page 3
		With the creation of his Rhythm group, Waller gave audiences what they wanted, a gradual shift from the staccato of New Orleans-style jazz towards the swing sound.
		His first recordings as Fats Waller and his Rhythm on 16 May 1934 marked a new trend in jazz.
		At all times, the apparency of unrestraint seems to be a hallmark of his Rhythm recordings throughout the thirties, yet with a bit of analysis, it becomes apparent that there was an underlying matrix of organization.
	www.worldofgramophones.com /fatswaller3.html (90 words)

	Fats Waller Piano Rolls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In addition to the QRS rolls Waller made one for Imperial, supposedly made one for the Automatic Music Roll Co. (it is almost certainly not Waller's work) and two for the Standard Music Roll Co. for release on their Standard Play-A-Roll label (some collectors claim that the latter figure should be just one, i.e.
		As Fats was both impressed and pleased to hear how Cook was able to imitate him, he gave permission to have his name used on the rolls.
		In "An almost complete Thomas "Fats" Waller Discography" [4], 22 of the Thomas Waller rolls are listed (one of them without a catalog number and with an incorrect release date) together with 49 alleged Cook/Waller rolls (in fact seven of them were never issued under Waller's name).
	www.mmdigest.com /MMMedia/fatswaller1.html (3432 words)

	Jass.com: Fats Waller and his Rhythm: The Last Years (1940-1943) RCA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The RCA record company has recently given all of Fat's Waller's fans a thrill by reissuing a 3 CD set of his songs.
		With the reissue of "Fats Waller: The Last Years," the end of his career gets the grand finale it deserves.
		Fats Waller's orchestra featured Fats playing piano, celeste and organ (Waller was famous for his work on that instrument associated primarily with the church).
	www.jass.com /Fats/fats.review.html (348 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Fats Waller: Books: Maurice Waller,Anthony Calabrese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I love Fats Waller, which is why I wanted to read this biography by his son, Maurice Waller.
		I was also intrigued by the ways in which Fats acquired his musical education, and with the accounts of how he composed his music.
		The authors also bring to life the context in which Fats Waller lived and worked: the rich culture of Harlem, the way in which the jazz greats nurtured each other and promising young musicians such as Fats, how they created their music, and how Fats and the others dealt with racism in the performing world.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Fats-Waller-Maurice/dp/0825671825 (405 words)

	Fats Waller — FactMonster.com
		Waller, Fats, 1904–43, American jazz musician, singer, and composer, whose original name was Thomas Wright Waller, b.
		Waller began playing the piano as a child, and later studied with Carl Bohm and Leopold Godowsky.
		From about 1920, Waller appeared in night-clubs and theaters, and in the 1930s he began recording.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0851364.html (173 words)

	Fats Waller (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Thomas "Fats" Waller is one of the more important of the modern pianist-composers.
		Born in New York on May 21, 1904, the son of a minister, "Fats" played the organ and sang in the choir of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, where his father preached until he was fifteen years old.
		We are happy to present this representation of original piano conceptions by "Fats" Waller, in which the famous piano stylist cleverly interprets, in the current idiom, some of songdom's foremost popular classics.
	www.alevy.com.cob-web.org:8888 /waller.htm (482 words)

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