Essays Tagged: "Fats Waller"
Duke Ellington
oad to begin his legendary jazz career.Growing up in acquaintance with such great jazz musicians as Fats Waller and James P. Johnson, Ellington left his education and family to play amongst the great ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers
Art Tatum
ole life consisted of music. Art's style was, at bottom, a form of stride piano and he acknowledged Fats Waller as his greatest influence.In the book, The Music of Black Americans, Ms. Southern states ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies
Count Basie and Jazz
ew York - a jazz hotspot - around 1920, where he met James P. Johnson, a Harlem stride pianist, and Fats Waller a pipe organist at the Lincoln Theater; in his autobiography, Basie sites Fats Waller as ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers