Fats Waller

Maurice Waller, Anthony Calabrese, Michael Lipskin

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University of Minnesota
01 November 2017

Music; Jazz; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment

"Thomas ""Fats"" Waller was a legendary stride pianist, a wildly entertaining comedic singer, and the composer of such classic melodies as ""Honeysuckle Rose,"" ""Ain't Misbehavin',"" and hundreds more. This is the intimate, behind-the-scenes story of his exuberant life, as told by his son, Maurice Waller. The public knew him as a charming, rascally, and effervescent showman. Friends like Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Irving Berlin, and George Gershwin knew him as a serious piano stylist and composer. Maurice Waller reveals the rarely seen side of Fats as a family man, struggling to juggle domestic affairs with the demands of being one of the era's busiest jazz men. From his earliest days as a child prodigy to his wild nights playing Harlem rent parties to his appearances on stages around the world and his eventual commercial success, it's all here. Few stories capture the frenetic energy of the age quite as well as the life story of this rollicking, hard living jazz icon."

By: Maurice Waller, Anthony Calabrese
Foreword by: Michael Lipskin
Imprint: University of Minnesota
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 38mm
ISBN: 9781517903916
ISBN 10: 1517903912
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 November 2017
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Maurice Waller (1927 1989) was a composer, pianist, and the son of legendary musician Fats Waller. Anthony Calabrese (1938 1996) was a freelance writer, journalist, and film producer. Michael Lipskin is a veteran stride pianist and former protege of Harlem jazz master Willie the Lion Smith.

Reviews for Fats Waller

A delightful look into the Jazz Age. -Chicago Tribune Maurice Waller's look-back at life with, or mostly without, his father is an affectionate and remarkably objective portrait of a lovable, exasperating, comedy-prone, joy-spreading, and excessively self-indulgent and talented jazz pianist, organist, and composer, who was also a warm and generous parent. -Christian Science Monitor Fats was my first jazz piano influence and his spirit is still vital to my approach to jazz . . . Maurice Waller's book about his father clarifies what has been for so long just story and rumor. Now I feel I know his legend from an authentic source-his son. Thanks, Maurice. Fats lives, indeed. -Dave Brubeck