1926-27

Fats Waller | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 13, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Jazz Chronological Classics
• ASIN: B000001NMT
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,505,147 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. St. Louis Blues

2. Lenox Avenue Blues (The Church Organ Blues)

3. Soothin' Syrup Stomp

4. Sloppy Water Blues

5. Loveless Love

6. Messin' Around with the Blues

7. The Rusty Pail

8. Stompin' the Bug

9. Hog Maw Stomp

10. Blue Black Bottom

11. Sugar [Instrumental][Version]

12. Sugar [Vocal Version]

13. Beale Street Blues [Vocal Version]

14. Beale Street Blues [Instrumental][Version]

15. I'm Goin' to See My Ma

16. Fats Waller Stomp

17. Savannah Blues

18. Won't You Take Me Home

19. Anything That Happens Just Pleases Me

20. My Old Daddy's Got a Brand-New Way to Love

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Fats Waller Disc, June 14, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: 1926-27 (Audio CD)

This is the best Waller disc ever. The sound is excellent; the performances superb. It features very rare and unusual tracks of Waller playing quite a good pipe organ at the Lenox Avenue Baptist Church in Camden, New Jersey. The first two tracks--the classic standard "St. Louis Blues," and "Church Organ Blues"--have the strange ambiance of Tod Browning's "Freaks." The next half dozen tracks cheerfully lead up to the wonderful standard "Sugar" for solo organ. I could gladly wake up to this track every day! Waller's solo realization is followed by the great duo coverage with the incomparable Alberta Hunter: it doesn't get any better than this! "Beale Street Blues" gets the same treatment, followed by "I'm Goin' to See My Ma." Three tracks of Dixieland style jazz follow with Waller on organ, accompanied by clarinet, trombone, and drums. The last tracks find Waller on piano accompanying the little known Maude Mills in four bluesy songs in the Bessie Smith vein--which address and represent early 20th-century Afro-American cultural sensibilities. "Black Snake Blues," for example, recalls the almost contemporaneous "Black Snake Moan" of Blind Lemmon Jefferson and Leadbelly. This is the disc to get and to give!