Reference: DRCD 11297
This 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 2. 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 Wallers only existing recorded renditions of the beautiful standard Poor Butterfly and Handys perennial Saint Louis Blues. The last track, taken from another 1939 transcription session, shows Fats improvising on a popular opera number.
Tracklisting:
CD1
1. Blue back bottom
2. Handful of keys
3. Numb flumbin'
4. An't misbehavin'
5. Sweet Savannah Sue
6. I've got the feeling I'm falling (tk 2)
7. I've got the feeling I'm falling (tk 3)
8. Love me or leave me (tk 1)
9. Love me or leave me (tk 2)
10. Gladyse (tk 1)
11. Gladyse (tk 2)
12. Valentine stomp (tk 1)
13. Valentine stomp (tk 2)
14. Waiting at the end of the road (tk 1)
15. Waiting at the end of the road (tk 2)
16. Baby, oh where can you be? (tk 1)
17. Baby, oh where can you be? (tk 2)
18. Goin' about (tk 1)
19. Goin' about (tk 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
25. After you've gone
26. African ripples
CD2
1. Clothes line ballet
2. Alligator's 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. Carola shout (tk 1)
12. Carola shout (tk 2)
13. Honeysuckle Rose
14. Ring dem bells
15. London suite I: Picadilly
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. St. Louis Blues
23. Hallelujah
24. Tea for two
25. Handful of keys
26. Swaltzing with Faust
Fats Waller: piano solo on all tracks. Recorded in Camden (New Jersey), New York and London between 1927 and 1941.
Total time: 159 mins.
