Complete Recorded Works Vol 1 (2007)

Product Summary Label: Koch Entertainment Dist UPC: 00788065902728 Release Date: 6/5/2007 Buy.com Sku: 204519697 Item#: M3LT4T Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Muscle Shoals Blues ~ Fats Waller 2. Birmingham Blues ~ Fats Waller 3. 'Taint Nobody's Bus'ness If I Do ~ Fats Waller 4. You Got Ev'rything A Sweet Mama Needs But Me ~ Fats Waller 5. Mama's Got The Blues ~ Fats Waller 6. Last Go Round Blues ~ Fats Waller 7. Stingaree Blues ~ Fats Waller 8. You Can't Do What My Last Man Did ~ Fats Waller 9. Sister Kate ~ Fats Waller 10. You Can't Do What My Last Man Did ~ Fats Waller 11. Trixie Blues ~ Fats Waller 12. I'm Cert'ny Gonna See 'Bout That - (with Clarence Williams) ~ Fats Waller 13. Squabbling Blues - (with Clarence Williams) ~ Fats Waller 14. In Harlem's Araby ~ Fats Waller 15. You Don't Know My Mind Blues - (with Clarence Williams) ~ Fats Waller 16. West Indies Blues - (with Clarence Williams) ~ Fats Waller 17. Maybe Someday ~ Fats Waller 18. (I'm Gonna See You) When Your Troubles Are Just Like Mine ~ Fats Waller 19. You Get Mad ~ Fats Waller 20. What's The Matter Now? ~ Fats Waller 21. Nobody Knows De Trouble I See ~ Fats Waller 22. Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray ~ Fats Waller 23. Ain't Got Nobody To Grind Ma Coffee ~ Fats Waller 24. Mama's Losin' A Mighty Good Chance ~ Fats Waller 25. Henderson Stomp, The - (with Coleman Hawkins/Don Redman/Benny Morton) ~ Fats Waller 26. Chant, The - (with Coleman Hawkins/Don Redman/Benny Morton) ~ Fats Waller Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. St Louis Blues ~ Fats Waller 2. Lenox Avenue Blues ~ Fats Waller 3. What Do You Know About That - (with Clarence Williams) ~ Fats Waller 4. Shut Your Mouth - (with Clarence Williams) ~ Fats Waller 5. Soothin' Syrup Stomp ~ Fats Waller 6. Sloppy Water Blues ~ Fats Waller 7. Loveless Love ~ Fats Waller 8. Messin' Around With The Blues ~ Fats Waller 9. Rusty Pail, The ~ Fats Waller 10. Stompin' The Bug ~ Fats Waller 11. Hog-Maw Stomp ~ Fats Waller 12. Blue Black Bottom Stomp ~ Fats Waller 13. Whiteman Stomp - (with Coleman Hawkins/Fletcher Henderson) ~ Fats Waller 14. I'm Coming Virginia - (with Coleman Hawkins/Fletcher Henderson) ~ Fats Waller 15. Preach The Word ~ Fats Waller 16. I'll Just Stand And Ring My Hands And Cry ~ Fats Waller 17. True Friendship ~ Fats Waller 18. Christians' Trouble Is Ended, The ~ Fats Waller 19. Sugar - (with Alberta Hunter) ~ Fats Waller 20. Sugar - (with Alberta Hunter) ~ Fats Waller 21. Beale Street Blues - (with Alberta Hunter) ~ Fats Waller 22. Beale Street Blues - (with Alberta Hunter) ~ Fats Waller 23. I'm Going To See My Ma - (with Alberta Hunter) ~ Fats Waller 24. 'Fats' Waller Stomp ~ Fats Waller 25. Savannah Blues ~ Fats Waller Disc 3 Song Title Sample 1. Won't You Take Me Home ~ Fats Waller 2. My Old Daddy's Got A Brand New Way To Love ~ Fats Waller 3. Anything That Happens Just Pleases Me ~ Fats Waller 4. I've Got The Joogie Blues ~ Fats Waller 5. Florence ~ Fats Waller 6. Gone But Not Forgotten ~ Fats Waller 7. You Live On In Memory ~ Fats Waller 8. Bye-Bye Florence ~ Fats Waller 9. He's Gone Away - (with Jimmy Archey) ~ Fats Waller 10. I Ain't Got Nobody - (with Jimmy Archey) ~ Fats Waller 11. Digah's Stomp, The - (with Jimmy Archey) ~ Fats Waller 12. Red Hot Dan - (with Jimmy Archey) ~ Fats Waller 13. Geechee - (with Jimmy Archey) ~ Fats Waller 14. Please Take Me Out Of Jail - (with Jimmy Archey) ~ Fats Waller 15. Back In Your Own Back Yard - (with Andy Razaf) ~ Fats Waller 16. Nobody Knows How Much I Love You - (with Andy Razaf) ~ Fats Waller 17. What's The Use Of Being Alone? - (with James P. Johnson) ~ Fats Waller 18. Original Blues - (with James P. Johnson) ~ Fats Waller 19. Willow Tree - (with Jabbo Smith/James P. Johnson) ~ Fats Waller 20. 'Sippi - (with Jabbo Smith/James P. Johnson) ~ Fats Waller 21. Thou Swell - (with Jabbo Smith/James P. Johnson) ~ Fats Waller 22. Persian Rug - (with Jabbo Smith/James P. Johnson) ~ Fats Waller 23. Chicago Blues - (with James P. Johnson) ~ Fats Waller 24. Mournful Tho'ts - (with James P. Johnson) ~ Fats Waller Disc 4 Song Title Sample 1. You Can't Do What My Last Man Did ~ Fats Waller 2. Trixie Blues ~ Fats Waller 3. St Louis Blues ~ Fats Waller 4. What Do You Know About That - (with Clarence Williams) ~ Fats Waller 5. Shut Your Mouth - (with Clarence Williams) ~ Fats Waller 6. Soothin' Syrup Stomp ~ Fats Waller 7. Sloppy Water ~ Fats Waller 8. Messin' Around With The Blues ~ Fats Waller 9. Rusty Pail, The ~ Fats Waller 10. Stompin' The Bug ~ Fats Waller 11. Hog-Maw Stomp ~ Fats Waller 12. 'Fats' Waller Stomp - (with Tom Morris) ~ Fats Waller 13. Savannah Blues - (with Tom Morris) ~ Fats Waller 14. Won't You Take Me Home - (with Tom Morris) ~ Fats Waller 15. My Old Daddy's Got A Brand New Way To Love ~ Fats Waller 16. Anything That Happens Just Pleases Me ~ Fats Waller 17. I've Got The Joogie Blues ~ Fats Waller 18. He's Gone Away - (with Jimmy Archey/Tom Morris) ~ Fats Waller 19. Digah's Stomp, The - (with Jimmy Archey/Tom Morris) ~ Fats Waller 20. Red Hot Dan - (with Jimmy Archey/Tom Morris) ~ Fats Waller 21. Geechee - (with Jimmy Archey/Tom Morris) ~ Fats Waller 22. Please Take Me Out Of Jail - (with Jimmy Archey/Tom Morris) ~ Fats Waller 23. Willow Tree - (with James P. Johnson) ~ Fats Waller 24. 'Sippi - (with James P. Johnson) ~ Fats Waller 25. Thou Swell - (with James P. Johnson) ~ Fats Waller   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Personnel: Fats Waller (vocals, piano, organ); Fats Waller; Clarence Williams (vocals, kazoo); June Cole Orchestra (vocals, bass instrument); Joe Sims, Juanita Stinette Chappelle, Caroline Johnson, Anna Jones, Alta Browne, Bertha Powell, Sister Ethel Grainger, Sister Odette Jackson, Carroll C Tate, David Martin, Juanita Stinette Chappelle, Caroline Johnson, David Martin , Maude "May Crane" Mills, Sister Ethel Grainger, Bertha Powell, Carroll C. Tate, Odette Jackson, Alberta Hunter, Maude Mills, Andy Razaf (vocals); Bobbie Leecan (guitar); John Mitchell (banjo); Bert Howell, Howard Nelson, Bert Howell, Howard Nelson (violin); Don Redman (clarinet, alto saxophone); Coleman Hawkins (clarinet, tenor saxophone); Addington Major, Louis Metcalf (clarinet); Garvis Bushell, Charlie Holmes (alto saxophone); Joe Smith , Cootie Willams, Cootie Williams, The Russell Smith Orchestra, Joe "Fox" Smith , Russell Smith (trumpet); Johnny Dunn & His Band, Tom Morris , Jabbo Smith, Johnny Dunn (cornet); Herb Flemming, Benny Morton's All Stars, Jimmy Archey (trombone); Fletcher Henderson (piano); Joe Watts (upright bass); Eddie King , Kaiser Marshall, Kaiser Marshall (drums); Justin Ring (wood block, percussion); Justin Ring (percussion); Hazel Meyers, Rosa Henderson, Sara Martin, Porter Grainger (vocals); Perry Bradford (spoken vocals); Charlie Dixon (banjo); Clarence Todd (kazoo); Garvin Bushell (clarinet, bassoon, alto saxophone); Buster Bailey (clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone); Tommy Ladnier (trumpet); Jimmy Harrison, Charlie Irvis (trombone); James P. Johnson (piano); Thomas Waller With Morris's Hot Babies, Lousiana Sugar Babes, Dunn's Original Jazz Hounds, Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra, Jimmy Johnson & His Orchestra. Additional personnel: Tom Morris (cornet); Benny Morton (trombone); Clarence Williams, Coleman Hawkins, Don Redman, Fletcher Henderson, Jabbo Smith, Jimmy Archey, Alberta Hunter, Andy Razaf. Audio Remasterer: Ted Kendall. Liner Note Author: Ted Kendall. Recording information: Camden, NJ (10/21/1922-06/18/1928); Long Island City, NY (10/21/1922-06/18/1928); New York, NY (10/21/1922-06/18/1928). Director: Fletcher Henderson. Arranger: Don Redman. For decades Fats Waller's recorded legacy has found its way into the lives of jazz heads and regular folks throughout the world, most often in piecemeal fashion through "best-of" collections that fixate upon his most popular recordings from the 1930s and early '40s, or in mammoth "complete editions" inevitably peppered with gaps and flaws. "Messin' Around with the Blues" is volume one in JSP's Complete Recorded Works of Thomas Fats Waller. Spread across four compact discs, one-hundred vintage tracks map nearly every single recording session that Waller participated in between October 21, 1922 and June 18, 1928. Sound is good throughout, and some of the early pressings sound much better than they did when reissued by the Classics label. This comes very close to being the best early Fats Waller reissue project the world has ever seen. Beginning with his first two piano solos, JSP traces young Waller's progress with almost unprecedented thoroughness, following him from date to date as he accompanies vocalists (most notably Alberta Hunter and Rosa Henderson) and comedians (Clarence Williams and Clarence Todd); sits in with bands led by Fletcher Henderson, Thomas Morris, Jimmy Johnson and Johnny Dunn; convenes with Johnson, cornetist Jabbo Smith and multi-reed man Garvin Bushell to make chamber jazz records under the name of the Louisiana Sugar Babes, and establishes himself as the world's very first jazz organist. The rarest material presented here is so uncommon that even lifelong Wallerites might never have caught it before; on May 17, 1927, Waller played organ behind four sermons viscerally delivered by the Rev. J.C. Burnett, assisted in holy roller style by Sisters Ethel Grainger and Odette Jackson. These recordings pick up where Waller and church ladies Alta Browne and Bertha Powell left off with their solemn little pair of sacred songs recorded for Gennett in April 1926. JSP's phenomenal early Waller anthology is outstanding and utterly essential. The only serious omissions appear to be two sides -- "Chloe" and "When You're with Somebody Else" -- recorded with Shilkret's Rhyth-Melodists in early March 1928. How or why these tracks didn't make it onto this otherwise stunningly complete overview of early Fats Waller is anybody's guess. Taken together, the eight CDs comprising volumes one and two in JSP's Complete Recorded Works of Fats Waller are major achievements deserving of highest honors. All that's needed now is for someone to issue every known player piano roll by Waller, Luckey Roberts and James P. Johnson. The rolls need to be played back using the Yamaha Disklavier, a high-tech instrument that was employed to rescue Jelly Roll Morton's piano rolls from oblivion. When this occurs, humanity will at last have taken decisive steps towards paying worthy homage to the Harlem pianists whose music played a decisive role in the rapid evolution of jazz and popular music during the first half of the 20th century. ~ arwulf arwulf Producer: Ted Kendall (Compilation)   Compilation Appearances Greatest Ragtime Of The Century Class Vol. 1-30's Piano Anthology-From Jelly Rol Classic Country Gents Reunion Vol. 2-Jazz & Blues Piano Harlem Saturday Night ROMANTIC SONGS Black & Proud Nicky's Jazz For Kids G.i. 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Ain't Misbehavin' [Original Broadway Cast] ~ Original Cast Original Cast Various Artists   Technical Info Release Date : 06/05/2007 Original Release Date : 2007 Catalog ID : 9027 Label : JSP (UK) Number of Discs : 4 Runtime : 308m : 54s Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00788065902728    Product Image