The jazz world has its share of legendary figures, and Thomas “Fats” Waller ranks as one of the most memorable. His enormous talent and humor are only paralleled by his infamous hedonistic lifestyle.

John McWhorter on controversy and reconstructing Fats Waller's "Early to Bed" 07:57. New York Times columnist, best-selling ...

Riverwalk Jazz this week focuses on Fats Waller the composer. Fats wrote over 500 compositions in his short twenty-year career. His friend, the lyricist Andy Razaf said that “music poured out of Fats ...

Fats Waller found a “Honeysuckle Rose” in Asbury Park and American music is better for it. The story of how Waller and Andy Razaf came to write “Honeysuckle Rose” at 119 Atkins Ave. in Asbury Park ...

Between the Harlem speak-easies of the ‘30s and the present-day bedroom community of Thousand Oaks lies an enormous gulf -- historical, racial and economic. But if anything can bridge that social ...

SARASOTA, Fla. (WSNN) – “Big Sexy: The Fats Waller Revue” returns to the stage at Westcoast Black Theatre for a limited run. After a successful debut in 2023, the high-energy musical revue is back by ...

“You can never publish my love,” Rogue Wave chants, in the song that the title of this series riffs on. Maybe that’s true, and we can never quite account for our love on paper or in print, but we sure ...

The Opera House Theatre Co. in Wilmington is staging "Ain't Misbehavin'," a musical revue of songs by Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller. The show features a talented cast, including Joy Ducree Gregory, Kim ...

WATFORD, England — As Darren Waller walks alongside a garden in the English countryside, with the clouds overhead nearby but not threatening, one can almost hear the tinkling of a piano in the ...

“This Joint is Jumpin’” aptly describes the atmosphere inside Hillbarn Theatre these days as “Ain’t Misbehavin’ The Fats Waller Musical Show” blasts its way onstage and thrills its opening-night ...

Includes "recording dates and personnel", lists of the composer's published and unpublished songs, piano rolls, and song arrangements. 1864-1904 : The background of the Waller family -- 1914-1919 : ...