1. Baby Brown (3:15)
2. Alligator Crawl (2:43)
3. Sweet Sue (2:55)
4. Honeysuckle Rose (3:09)
5. Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now (3:08)
6. Two Sleepy People (3:06)
7. Hold Tight (2:18)
8. Your Feet's Too Big (3:08)
9. Carolina Shout (2:17)
10. Darktown Strutter's Ball (2:45)
11. The Joint Is Jumpin' (2:49)
12. Swingin' Them Jingle Bells (3:03)
13. Ain't Misbehavin' (4:02)
14. The Meanest Thing You Ever Did Was Kiss Me (3:09)
15. Lulu's Back In Town (2:37)
16. What's The Reason (2:51)
17. Big Chief De Sota (2:56)
18. Whose Honey Are You? (2:36)
19. Christopher Columbus (2:51)
20. Bye Bye Baby (2:20)

American jazz pianist, organist, composer and comedic entertainer (born 21 May 1904 in Harlem, New York, USA - died 15 December 1943 in a Santa-Fé-Express near Kansas City, Missouri, USA (pneumonia). One of the most popular performers of his era.

Thomas Wright Waller was the youngest of four children born to Adaline Locket Waller and the Reverend Edward Martin Waller. He started playing the piano when he was six and graduated to the organ of his father's church four years later. At the age of fourteen he was playing the organ at Harlem's Lincoln Theater and within twelve months he had composed his first rag. Waller's first piano solos ("Muscle Shoals Blues" and "Birmingham Blues") were recorded in October 1922 when he was 18 years old.

He was the prize pupil, and later friend and colleague, of stride pianist James P. Johnson. Fats Waller was the son of a preacher and learned to play the organ in church with his mother. Overcoming opposition from his clergyman father, Waller became a professional pianist at 15, working in cabarets and theaters. In 1918 he won a talent contest playing Johnson's "Carolina Shout", a song he learned from watching a player piano play it.

Waller contracted pneumonia and died on a cross country train trip near Kansas City, Missouri on December 15, 1943, after making a final recording session with an interracial group in Detroit that included white trumpeter Don Hirleman. He was on his way back to Hollywood for more film work, after the smash success of "Stormy Weather". Coincidentally, as the train with the body of Waller stopped in Kansas City, so stopped a train with his dear friend Louis Armstrong on board. --- discogs.com

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CD 1

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

CD 2

1 Clothes Line Ballet (Waller)
2 Alligator Crawl (Waller)
3 Viper's Drag (Waller)
4 Keepin' Out of Mischief Now (Waller)
5 Stardust (Carmichael, Parish)
6 Basin Street Blues (Williams)
7 Tea for Two (Caesar, Youmans)
8 I Ain't Got Nobody (Graham, Williams)
9 Georgia on My Mind (Carmichael, Gorell)
10 Rockin' Chair (Carmichael)
11 Carolina Shout [Take 1] (Johnson)
12 Carolina Shout [Take 2] (Johnson)
13 Honeysuckle Rose (Razaf, Waller)
14 Ring dem Bells (Ellington, Mills)
15 London Suite I: Piccadilly (Waller)
16 London Suite II: Chelsea (Waller)
17 London Suite III: Soho (Waller)
18 London Suite IV : Bond Street (Waller)
19 London Suite V : Limehouse (Waller)
20 London Suite VI : Whitechapel (Waller)
21 Poor Butterfly (Godlen, Hubbell)
22 Saint Louis Blues (Handy)
23 Hallelujah (Grey, Robin, Youmans)
24 Tea for Two (Caesar, Youmans)
25 A Handful of Keys (Waller)
26 Swaltzing with Faust (Gounod)

Fats Waller - piano
Benny Payne - piano [cd 1, # 24-25]
Max Levin - drums [cd 2, # 18]

Recorded between February 16, 1927 & November 29, 1939

Thomas "Fats" Waller was the first jazz organist. He also helped to develop and establish the style of music commonly known as swing; was possessed of an outrageous sense of humor; sang however the hell he felt like singing, and made a point of cutting up whenever possible, particularly when he had to navigate a seemingly endless stream of Tin Pan Alley lyrics. All of his traits and accomplishments sometimes seem to obscure what is perhaps the most important and enduring aspect of Fats Waller -- he was a gifted and powerfully expressive pianist who learned his craft from the originators of the Harlem stride style: James P. Johnson, Willie "The Lion" Smith and Luckey Roberts. Seldom have Waller's major piano solos been made available en masse to the public for any length of time. These three-minute nougats of wordless wonderment popped up between clusters of ensemble and vocal tracks during the LP era, adding significant depth to the RCA Victor Vintage series in particular. A 1977 Bluebird.double LP (containing 33 selections) presented most of the master takes recorded between 1929 and 1941, and a follow-up Bluebird double CD (40 selections) appeared in 1991 bearing the title Turn on the Heat. Both of these compilations disappeared after awhile, leaving the public to search through chronologies and compilations or to remain altogether ignorant of Waller's pianistic prowess. Definitive's 2006 double-CD reissue of the Complete Victor Piano Solos (with a whopping 52 selections) is the best compilation of its kind. The producers responsible for this package deserve highest praise for having assembled these precious recordings in an unprecedented chronological compendium. Beginning with the gutsy 1927 stomp "Blue Black Bottom" (which did not make it onto the 1977 LP two-fer), this edition omits Waller's two very first recordings, a pair of piano solos cut for the Okeh label in October of 1922. It does include all of the significant Victor solos with six alternate takes, and surpasses Turn on the Heat by dealing in the six-movement "London Suite" and six exquisite lesser-known radio transcriptions, including a gorgeous three-minute rumination on a theme from Faust, Charles Gounod's opera of 1859. These solos represent and reveal the very heart of Waller, and a significant portion of the collective soul of all humanity. If there were to be one Fats Waller album, or one jazz album, or one of a handful of sound recordings to speak for the world, this is it. It's that important, it's that beautiful, it's that essential. Honest to goodness. --- arwulf arwulf, Rovi

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1. Twelfth Street Rag
2. When Somebody Thinks You're Wonderful
3. Handful Of Keys
4. The Minor Drag
5. Please Take Me Out Of Jail
6. Honeysuckle Rose
7. Believe It, Beloved
8. Big Chief De Sota
9. My Very Good Friend The Milkman
10. I Got Rhythm
11. Blue Turning Grey Over You
12. Ain't Misbehavin'
13. That Old Feeling (vocal – Adelaide Hall)
14. Pent Up In A Penthouse
15. Honey Hush
16. Original E-flat Blues
17. It's A Sin To Tell A Lie
18. Jitterbug Waltz
19. Four Robbers
20. By The Light Of The Silvery Moon
21. That Ain’t Right
22. Riffs - James P. Johnson
23. Mr Blue Bird - Putney Dandridge & His Orchestra

Fats Waller was the son of a preacher and learned to play the organ in church with his mother. In 1918 he won a talent contest playing James P. Johnson's Carolina Shout which he learned from watching a pianola play the song. He would later take piano lessons from Johnson. Fats began his recording career in 1922 and made a living playing rent parties, as an organist at movie theatres and as an accompanist for various vaudeville acts. In 1927 he co-wrote a couple of tunes with his old piano teacher James P. Johnson for his show "Keep Shufflin'". Two years later Waller wrote the score for the Broadway hit "Hot Chocolates" with lyrics supplied by his friend Andy Razaf. Fats' most famous song, "Ain't Misbehavin'" was introduced in this show which featured Louis Armstrong. Fats Waller's big break occurred at a party given by George Gershwin in 1934, where he delighted the crowd with his piano playing and singing. An executive of Victor Records, who was at the party was so impressed that he arranged for Fats to record with the company. This arrangement would continue until Waller's death in 1943. Most of the records he made were released under the name of Fats Waller and his Rhythm. The group consisted of around half a dozen musicians who worked with him regularly, including Zutty Singleton. Throughout the 1930s and early 1940s Fats was a star of radio and nightclubs, and toured Europe. He unexpectedtly died on board a train near Kansas City, Missouri of pneumonia in 1943. ---redhotjazz.com

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