Word: waller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evening of pure, concentrated hellraising, we suggest Fats Waller at the Southland. I heard him again last week, and can remember few times when I have had as much fun. The six guys in Fats' band make more music than most of the big bands ever think of making. Eugene Cedric on tenor plays solos that rampage in much the same manner that Chu Berry's do. Everybody else, including Herman Autrey on trumpet, is just as good...
...Swing's harmful little armful" drifted into town this week. The one and only Thomas "Fats" Waller is at the Southland with his band. And don't get the impression that when you go down there, you're going to hear fourteen or fifteen men earnestly endeavoring to blow their (and your) heads off. Far from this, Fats carries only six men in his band. But between some really mad kidding around, they get off some swell jazz for both listening and dancing...
...highly recommended!) which had some of the best orchestra piano I had heard in a long time. Asked the guy where he learned his style, to which he replied, "My name's Willy Gans, I can sho' play a mess of piano, and I learnt it all from Fats Waller." The point about this whole business is that Fats just can't get hep to this modern school of frill pianists. Most guys playing today play a lot of very fast and fancy right hand work, leaving the rhythm and the chord changes of the left hand to the bass...
...days on April 21 and 22, were received yesterday at Princeton when Nelson A. Rockefeller and Bernard K. Schaefer, President of the Colombia-America Chamber of Commerce, accepted for the Latin-American table; and when Dr. B. M. Little, Regional Director of the Social Security Board, and Dr. William Waller, Assistant Surgeon-General, United States Public Health Service indicated they would participate in the discussion at the social security table...
Also attending this table will be George Digge, member of the Social Security Board, and Dr. Waller, of the Public Health Service...