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Fats Waller / by Maurice Waller and Anthony Calabrese ; foreword by Michael Lipskin.
LIBRA Special ML417.W15 W3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waller, Maurice.
- Calabrese, Anthony, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Waller, Fats, 1904-1943.
- Waller, Fats.
- Jazz musicians--United States--Biography.
- Jazz musicians.
- African American musicians.
- United States.
- African American musicians--United States--Biography.
- Musicians--United States--Biography.
- Musicians.
- Jazz--History and criticism.
- Jazz.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xix, 235 pages : illustrations, portraits, music ; 25 cm
- Production:
- New York : Schirmer Books, [1977].
- Contents:
- 1864-1904 : The background of the Waller family
- 1914-1919 : Fats discovers Harlem nightlife
- 1919 : the death of Fats' mother
- 1920-1922 : Fats meets James P. Johnson and Willie The Lion Smith
- 1922-1924 : Fats marries Edith
- 1923-1924 : Fats and the music publishers
- 1924-1926 : Fats meets his second wife and Captain Maines
- 1927-1928 : Fats writes "Keep shufflin'"
- 1928-1929 : Fats writes "Load of coal"
- 1930-1931 : Fats becomes a recording regular for RCA
- 1932-1933 : Fats goes to work for WWL
- 1934-1936 : Fats makes it to the top as a composer and recording artist
- 1937-1943 : Buster Shepherd remembers the good and bad times
- 1940-1943 : Fats at his peak as a recording artist and songwriter
- Maurice remembers his father
- 1943 : the death of Fats
- Recording dates and personnel
- Fats Waller's published songs
- Fats Waller's unpublished songs
- Fats Waller's piano rolls
- Song arrangements.
- Notes:
- Includes "recording dates and personnel", lists of the composer's published and unpublished songs, piano rolls, and song arrangements.
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Waller, Maurice. Fats Waller.
- ISBN:
- 0028727304
- 9780028727301
- OCLC:
- 3186710
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