Jazz Life and Times: Fats Waller

by Alyn Shipton

Overview

Fats Waller (1904-1943) was an outsize man in all respects: five feet eleven inches tall, he weighed 285 pounds. He was the greatest of the Harlem "stride" pianists, he composed hundreds of songs, he led a band which made over 400 recordings and he wrote several Broadway shows. Waller is seen by jazz historians as a man of immense musical talent which was never fulfilled, in the interests of his career as a popular and humorous entertainer. In this fully revised and updated biography of Waller, Alyn Shipton re-examines his career, arguing that his talents as a songwriter, show composer and brilliant recording and broadcasting artist have not been fully appreciated. A new final chapter, provides a comprehensive survey of Waller's recordings as they have been reissued for the CD era

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857128270
Publisher:	Omnibus Press
Publication date:	04/06/1989
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	134
File size:	9 MB