Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Blue Black Bottom
2. Handful of Keys
3. Numb Fumblin'
4. Ain't Misbehavin'
5. Sweet Savannah Sue
6. I've Got the Feeling I'm Falling [Take 2]
7. I've Got the Feeling I'm Falling [Take 3]
8. Love Me or Leave Me [Take 1]
9. Love Me or Leave Me [Take 2]
10. Gladyse [Take 1]
11. Gladyse [Take 2]
12. Valentine Stomp [Take 1]
13. Valentine Stomp [Take 2]
14. Waiting at the End of the Road [Take 1]
15. Waiting at the End of the Road [Take 2]
16. Baby, Oh Where Can You Be? [Take 1]
17. Baby, Oh Where Can You Be? [Take 2]
18. Goin' About [Take 1]
19. Goin' About [Take 2]
20. My Feelings Are Hurt
21. Smashing Thirds
22. My Fate Is in Your Hands
23. Turn on the Heat
24. St. Louis Blues - Benny Payne, Fats Waller
25. After You've Gone - Benny Payne, Fats Waller
26. African Ripples

Disc 2:

1. Clothes Line Ballet
2. Alligator Crawl
3. Viper's Drag
4. Keepin' Out of Mischief Now
5. Stardust
6. Basin Street Blues
7. Tea for Two
8. I Ain't Got Nobody
9. Georgia on My Mind
10. Rockin' Chair
11. Carolina Shout [Take 1]
12. Carolina Shout [Take 2]
13. Honeysuckle Rose
14. Ring dem Bells
15. London Suite I: Piccadilly [*]
16. London Suite II: Chelsea [*]
17. London Suite III: Soho [*]
18. London Suite IV: Bond Street [*]
19. London Suite V: Limehouse [*]
20. London Suite VI: Whitechapel [*]
21. Poor Butterfly [*]
22. Saint Louis Blues [*]
23. Hallelujah [*]
24. Tea for Two [*]
25. Handful of Keys [*]
26. Swaltzing with Faust [*]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #106554 in Music
• Released on: 2006-07-10
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Album Description
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.

Customer Reviews

Almosty perfect
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.

Fats Waller, THE PIANO MAN
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.