I've Got the Feeling I'm Falling [Take 2] - Fats Waller, Link
I've Got the Feeling I'm Falling [Take 3] - Fats Waller, Link
Love Me or Leave Me [Take 1] - Fats Waller, Donaldson
Love Me or Leave Me [Take 2] - Fats Waller, Donaldson
Gladyse [Take 1] - Fats Waller, Waller
Gladyse [Take 2] - Fats Waller, Waller
Valentine Stomp [Take 1] - Fats Waller, Waller
Valentine Stomp [Take 2] - Fats Waller, Waller
Waiting at the End of the Road [Take 1] - Fats Waller, Berlin
Waiting at the End of the Road [Take 2] - Fats Waller, Berlin
Baby, Oh Where Can You Be? [Take 1] - Fats Waller, Koehler
Baby, Oh Where Can You Be? [Take 2] - Fats Waller, Koehler
Goin' About [Take 1] - Fats Waller, Waller
Goin' About [Take 2] - Fats Waller, Waller
My Feelings Are Hurt - Fats Waller, Waller
Smashing Thirds - Fats Waller, Waller
My Fate Is in Your Hands - Fats Waller, Razaf, Andy
Turn on the Heat - Fats Waller, Brown, Lew
St. Louis Blues - Fats Waller, Handy, W.C.
After You've Gone - Fats Waller, Creamer
African Ripples - Fats Waller, Waller
Track Listings (26) - Disc #2
Clothes Line Ballet - Fats Waller, Waller
Alligator Crawl - Fats Waller, Waller
Viper's Drag - Fats Waller, Waller
Keepin' Out of Mischief Now - Fats Waller, Waller
Stardust - Fats Waller, Carmichael, Hoagy
Basin Street Blues - Fats Waller, Williams, S. [1]
Tea for Two - Fats Waller, Caesar, Irving
I Ain't Got Nobody - Fats Waller, Graham
Georgia on My Mind - Fats Waller, Carmichael
Rockin' Chair - Fats Waller, Carmichael
Carolina Shout [Take 1] - Fats Waller, Johnson, James P. [
Carolina Shout [Take 2] - Fats Waller, Johnson, James P. [
Honeysuckle Rose - Fats Waller, Razaf
Ring dem Bells - Fats Waller, Ellington
London Suite I: Piccadilly [*] - Fats Waller, Waller, Fats
London Suite II: Chelsea [*] - Fats Waller, Waller, Fats
London Suite III: Soho [*] - Fats Waller, Waller, Fats
London Suite IV: Bond Street [*] - Fats Waller, Waller, Fats
London Suite V: Limehouse [*] - Fats Waller, Waller, Fats
London Suite VI: Whitechapel [*] - Fats Waller, Waller, Fats
Poor Butterfly [*] - Fats Waller, Godlen
Saint Louis Blues [*] - Fats Waller, Handy, W.C.
Hallelujah [*] - Fats Waller, Grey
Tea for Two [*] - Fats Waller, Caesar, Irving
A Handful of Keys [*] - Fats Waller, Waller, Fats
Swaltzing with Faust [*] - Fats Waller, Gounod
This two CD collection brings together all the studio piano solos Waller recorded for Victor. It is an amazing corpus, and doubly interesting as Fats performs many of his numerous compositions. His most important solo reco... more »rdings other than his Victor sides, are the movements of his 'London Suite', added here as a bonus on Disc Two. To round out this collection, we included all the piano solo tracks from an extended 1939 radio transcription session, on which he had previously recorded quintet, organ and vocal tracks. They present Fats Waller's only existing recorded renditions of the beautiful standard 'Poor Butterfly' and Handy's perennial 'Saint Louis Blues'. The last track, taken from another 1939 transcription session, shows Fats improvising on a popular opera number. Definitive. 2006.« less
This two CD collection brings together all the studio piano solos Waller recorded for Victor. It is an amazing corpus, and doubly interesting as Fats performs many of his numerous compositions. His most important solo recordings other than his Victor sides, are the movements of his 'London Suite', added here as a bonus on Disc Two. To round out this collection, we included all the piano solo tracks from an extended 1939 radio transcription session, on which he had previously recorded quintet, organ and vocal tracks. They present Fats Waller's only existing recorded renditions of the beautiful standard 'Poor Butterfly' and Handy's perennial 'Saint Louis Blues'. The last track, taken from another 1939 transcription session, shows Fats improvising on a popular opera number. Definitive. 2006.
CD Reviews
Fats Waller, THE PIANO MAN
Hermine Stover | perris, CA USA | 08/16/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"There was nobody like Fats, and we are lucky he recorded as much as he did. This music is part of his legacy, and a person should own this before it becomes obsolete as do so many wonderful recordings.A very pure and highly gifted musician. He brings much joy."
Almosty perfect
Joe Hart | 09/29/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Perfect sound reproduction and Fats Waller himself playing. Prefer ever so slightly Dick Hyman's playing of Waller, which CD induced me to buy this."
Track Listings (26) - Disc #1