Blue Classic
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FATS WALLER
PORTRAIT
 BLUE
Classic line saban crescendo 7270
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- B Flat Blues
- I Ain’t Got Nobody
- Dinah
- Sweet Sue
- Twelfth St rag
- Why Do I Lie To Myself About You
- Ain’t Misbehavin
- Everybody Loves My Baby
- Handful of Keys
- The Minor drags
- Do Me a Favour
- Have a Little Dream on Me
- You’re not the Only Oyster in the Stew
- Mandy
- Let’s Pretend There’s a Moon
- Honeysuckle Rose
- I’ve Got My Fingers Crossed
Fats Waller was the undisputed ‘King of Good Time
Jazz’, he was also an exceptionally fine pianist, who influenced many
including Count Basie and Oscar Peterson. Many other fine jazz musicians
including Ben Webster enjoyed his music as a tonic to get into the
day in a good mood. If you listen to these tracks it is easy to see
why, they are full of infectious good humour and well-played choruses.
Fats was not only an excellent soloist himself, but he knew how to
get 120% out of everyone in his band. Some of his sidemen are rarely
heard outside his band, but every one of them acquits himself with
great credit.
It is probably this happy feel about his records,
that is the reason that they are still often played on radio programmes.
Unfortunately I never saw him in a live performance, but it must have
been a very exciting affair. If in doubt listen to the 1943 version
of Ain’t Misbehavin’, Louis Armstrong in the famous New York Town
Hall Concert with Jack Teagarden copies bits of it and Louis never
copied anybody, so this chorus must have stuck in his sub-conscious!
Buy this album and enjoy the genius that was Fats
Waller is my advice, you will also understand fully what ‘stride’
piano is about when you have heard it.
Don Mather
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