Fats waller

Born out of Harlem in the 1920s, stride pianists took the basic left-hand "oompah" rhythm of ragtime, but played it with more swing and complexity, while the right hand played the melody and the ever-increasing improvisations upon it. Read and hear a five-song introduction to a style that travels great distances up and down the keyboard.

Fats Waller eating a hot dog in Harlem, NY circa 1937.

Cab Calloway on Instagram: “Happy Birthday to Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer,…”

An impressionistic, anecdotal, suggestive, but by definition incomplete survey of the past 100 years of New York pop. View the Slideshow.

Fats Waller , jazz pianist. Image dated March 1, 1935. New York, NY. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images

At 10 years old Thomas Wright Waller was already playin’ the organ in his father’s church. At 15 Waller won a..

Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller was a singer, violinist, composer, organist, and pianist who also moonlighted as a comedic entertainer. Waller has over 400 songs copyrighted to his name, the majority of which were results of collaborations with Andy Razaf, a close friend. He is also heralded as the initiator of modern jazz

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