Fats Waller: The Cheerful Little Earful (Bayou Jazz Lives S.) Shipton, Alyn

Alyn Shipton

ISBN 10: 082646534X / ISBN 13: 9780826465344

Published by Continuum Intl Pub Group, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fats Waller: The Cheerful Little Earful (Bayou Jazz Lives S.) Shipton, Alyn
• Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 082646534X
• ISBN 13: 9780826465344
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Alyn Shipton presents jazz radio programmes for the BBC and is a critic for The Times. His most recent books are A New History of Jazz (Continuum, 2001) and Groovin' High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie (Oxford University Press, 1999).