Fats & His Buddies

Fats Waller | Format: Audio Cassette

Product Details

• Audio Cassette (March 10, 1992)
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B00000EUFI
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,614,409 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Minor Drag

2. Harlem Fuss

3. Lookin' Good But Feelin' Bad

4. I Need Someone Like You

5. Lookin' for Another Sweetie

6. Ridin' But Walkin'

7. Won't You Get Off It, Please?

8. When I'm Alone [*]

9. Willow Tree

10. 'Sippi [Take 1]

11. 'Sippi [Take 2]

12. Thou Swell [Take 2]

13. Thou Swell [Take 3]

14. Persian Rug

15. Fats Waller Stomp

16. Savannah Blues

17. Won't You Take Me Home? [*]

18. He's Gone Away [*]

19. Red Hot Dan

20. Geechee

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ridiculously over-filtered sound!, February 14, 2006

By 

Ted Ison (East Coast USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fats & His Buddies (Audio CD)

One must beware of digital restoration from the late '80s and early '90s. That was when it was stylish to show off just how much "noise" could be removed with CEDAR or Sonic Solutions' NO NOISE programs. The trouble is, a lot of the freshness of the music is in the same range as the "noise", and if too much is removed, the songs sound dull and lifeless. This entire CD is very difficult for me to listen to for that reason. I have scratchy 78s of many of these, and even with the scratch, they sound SOOOOO much better than this early attempt at digital restoration. Sorry, my copy will be on ebay next week.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great early jazz from the 20s., April 16, 2007

By 

Mr. P. Campbell "Jazz freak." (Cairo, Egypt.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fats & His Buddies (Audio CD)

If you can find a copy of this scarce CD, go out and buy it. It's joyful music by various groups led by Fats Waller but featuring jazz greats like Jabbo Smith,James P.Johnson and Garvin Bushell notwithstanding Fats himself, of course. Wow! On the up tempo numbers, those guys swung like crazy.