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Artist: Fats Waller
Album: Fats And His Buddies
Genre: Stride, Dixieland, Swing
Label: Bluebird, RCA
Released: 1992
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
Fats Waller And His Buddies:
1. The Minor Drag - 2:50
2. Harlem Fuss - 3:22
3. Lookin' Good But Feelin' Bad - 2:36
4. I Need Someone Like You - 3:34
5. Lookin' For Another Sweetie - 3:05
6. Ridin' But Walkin' - 2:29
7. Won't You Get Up Off It Please - 3:00
8. When I'm Alone - 3:30
Louisiana Sugar Babes:
9. Willow Tree - 3:29
10. 'Sippi [Take 1] - 3:12
11. 'Sippi [Take 2] - 3:08
12. Thou Swell [Take 2] - 3:02
13. Thou Swell [Take 3] - 2:59
14. Persian Rug - 3:33
Thomas Waller With Morris's Hot Babies:
15. Fats Waller Stomp - 3:22
16. Savannah Blues - 3:00
17. Won't You Take Me Home - 2:45
18. He's Gone Away - 2:37
19. Red Hot Dan - 3:24
20. Geechee Stomp - 3:04
21. Please Take Me Out Of Jail - 2:48
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This CD has most of Fats Waller's best band recordings of the '20s, including eight selections by his "Buddies" (highlighted by "The Minor Drag" and "Harlem Fuss"), six (counting two alternate takes) from the Louisiana Sugar Babes (an odd quartet featuring Waller's organ and James P. Johnson's piano), and seven selections on which Waller sits in with cornetist Thomas Morris' Hot Babies in 1927. Surprisingly, other than his scat vocal on "Red Hot Dan," Fats Waller is heard strictly as a pianist but his talents were so giant as an instrumentalist that one never minds. With trombonists Charlie Irvis and Jack Teagarden and trumpeters Red Allen and Jabbo Smith among the strong supporting cast, the one word for this superior CD is hot.
Review by Scott Yanow