# Fats Waller

Thomas Wright Waller, dit Fats Waller, l'est né au 21 ed moai 1904 à New York pi l'est défuncté au 15 ed déchimbe 1943 à Kansas City (Missouri). Ch'est est un pianisse ed djazz, organisse pi compositeur anméricain.
Chés canchons célèbes :
* Squeeze Me (1919),
* Ain't Misbehavin' (1929),
* Honeysuckle Rose (1929),
* I’ve Got a Feeling I’m Falling (1929),
* Blue Turning Grey Over You (1930)
* Jitterbug Waltz (1942).
Fats Waller meurt à 39 ans d'eune broncho-pneumonie l'15 éd déchimbe 1943, dins un train pré d' Kansas City.

## Inrégistrémints
### Piano Solos

* African Ripples ( 1934 , 1935 )
* Alligator Crawl ( 1934 , 1935 )
* Ain't Misbehavin' ( 1929 )
* Baby, Oh! Where Can You Be? ( 1929 )
* Basin Street Blues ( 1937 )
* Because Of Once Upon a Time ( 1935 )
* Birmingham Blues ( 1922 )
* Blue Black Bottom ( 1927 )
* Blue Turning Gray Over You ( 1935 )
* California, Here I Come ( 1935 )
* Carolina Shout ( 1941 )
* Clothes Line Ballet ( 1935 )
* Down Home Blues ( 1935 )
* E-Flat Blues ( 1935 )
* Georgia on My Mind ( 1941 )
* Gladyse ( 1929 )
* Goin' About ( 1929 )
* Hallelujah ( 1935 , 1939 , 1943 )
* Handful of Keys ( 1929 , 1935 , 1939 )
* Honeysuckle Rose ( 1935 , 1941 )
* I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling ( 1929 )
* I Ain't Got Nobody ( 1937 )
* Intermezzo ( 1939 )
* Keepin' Out of Mischief Now ( 1937 )
* London Suite ( 1939 )
* Love Me or Leave Me ( 1929 )
* Martinique ( 1943 )
* Muscle Shoals Blues ( 1922 )
* My Fate is in Your Hands ( 1929 , 1935 )
* My Feelings Are Hurt ( 1929 )
* Numb Fumblin' ( 1929 )
* Poor Butterfly ( 1939 )
* Ring dem Bells ( 1941 )
* Rockin' Chair (canchon, 1929) ( 1941 )
* Russian Fantasy ( 1935 )
* Smashing Thirds ( 1929 )
* St. Louis Blues ( 1939 )
* Stardust ( 1937 )
* Swaltzing with Faust ( 1939 )
* Sweet Savannah Sue ( 1929 )
* Tea for Two ( 1935 , 1937 , 1939 )
* Turn on the Heat ( 1929 )
* Valentine Stomp ( 1929 )
* Viper's Drag ( 1934 , 1935 )
* Waiting at the End of the Road ( 1929 )
* You're the Top ( 1935 )
* Zonky ( 1935 )

### Fats Waller & His Buddies ( 1929 )

* The Minor Drag
* Harlem Fuss
* That's How I Feel Today
* Six or Seven Times
* Looking Good But Feeling Bad
* I Need Someone Like You
* Looking for Another Sweetie
* Ridin' But Walkin'
* Won't You Got Off Please
* When I'm Alone

### Fats Waller & His Rhythm

Pus d' 400 inrégistrémints dont :
* Ain't Misbehavin' (1939, 1943) - Paroles pèr Andy Razaf, musique pèr Fats Waller pi Harry Brooks
* All That Meat And No Potatoes (1936)
* Baby Brown (1935)
* Believe It Beloved (1934)
* Blue, Turning Grey Over You (1937)
* Christopher Columbus (1936)
* Copper Colored Gal (1936)
* Dinah (1935)
* Do Me a Favor (1934)
* Don't Let It Bother You (1934)
* Fractious Fingering (1936)
* Hallelujah! Things Look Rosey Now (1936)
* Honeysuckle Rose (1934, 1937) - Paroles pèr Andy Razaf, musique pèr Fats Waller
* How Can You Face Me? (1934)
* I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter (en) (1935) - Paroles pèr Joe Young, musique pèr Fred E. Alhert
* I've Got My Fingers Crossed (1935)
* It's a Sin to Tell a Lie (en) (1936)
* Lulu's Back In Town (1935)
* Oh Frenchy (1936)
* One In a Million (1936)
* Old Grand Dad (1940)
* Original E-Flat Blues (1940)
* Please Keep me in your Dreams (1939)
* Serenade For a Wealthy Widow (1934)
* Two Sleepy People (en) (1938)
* What's the reason (I'm not pleasin' you)? (1935)

## Filmografie

* 1936 : King of Burlesque : Ben
* 1943 : Symphonie magique (Stormy Weather) : li-meume

## Bibliografie

* (en) Ain't Misbehavin': The Story Of Fats Waller, Ed Kirkeby (Dodd, Mead & Company 1966)
* (en) Fats Waller, the Cheerful little earful, Alyn Shipton (2005)
* (en) Fats Waller, His Life & Time , Alyn Shipton (Omnibus Press UK, 1988)
* (en) Fats Waller, Performances in transcription, Paul S. Machlin (AR Éditions Inc, 2001)
* (en) Stride : The music of Fats Waller, Paul S. Machlin, (Twayne Publishers, 1985)
* (en) Fats Waller, Maurice Waller and Anthony Calabrese (Schirmer Books, 1997)
* Fats Waller, binde à dessin pèr Igort pi Carlos Sampayo (2004)
** tome 1 : La Voix de son maître
** tome 2 : Chocolat Amer

## Notes et références

* Harlem Stride Piano, site consacré à Fats Waller
* Fats Waller, Hommage au roi du piano Stride.