Word: waller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those of us who have been suffering from a recent overdoes of the highly-arranged, sophisticated jazz of small groups like the Goodman Sextet and the John Kirby band, it's something of a pleasure to get on a Fats Waller Kick. While other orchestras have been receiving terrific publicity from swing critics and press agents, Fats and his band have remained somewhat in the background. For the past several years they have not been getting half the praise they deserve...
Once you start listening to Waller's records, you can't get enough, so I'd like to suggest several which impress me as being representative of Fats at his best. Sweet and Slow (1934 vintage), Big Chief De Sota and It's A Sin To Tell A Lie (You can imagine what Fats does to the latter), My Mommie Sent Me to the Store, and finally Send Me Jackson. (The last two have exceptional Cedric choruses...
...salesrooms were offering him, put out his own recordings. The customer was a rich young Manhattan game-chicken and hot fan named Colin Campbell. Campbell's combination, released under a Commodore Music Shop label, includes Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Guitarist Eddie Condon and, most notably, Fats Waller. Because of his Victor contract, Waller uses the nom de piano of Maurice, his nine-year-old son. His improvisations and ad lib choruses have much more sound invention than he ordinarily waxes for Victor. Of the four sides of jam and jazz classics, Georgia Grind provides most Waller, most listening...
Last week educators, sociologists and physicians met in Chicago and learnedly discussed The Family in Wartime. The delegates were not prepared to bet a plugged nickel on the family's immediate prospects. Already, declared Professor Willard Waller of Columbia University, although the U. S. was not at war, the national-defense program had begun to raise hell with U. S. families. He ticked off wartime dangers: > Disruption of relations between parents and children...
...Walter Page. Just the thing for those who want to dig a rhythm section that doesn't have to sweat in order to swing. . . . Best solo of the week comes from Eugene Cedric's tenor sax, on My Mommie Sent Me To The Store, a BLUEBIRD recording by Fats Waller. . . . Charlie Barnet's arrangement of Night and Day (BLUEBIRD), gives new life to the old tune. The reverse, Wild Mab of the Fish Pond, features some very super-Ellington orchestration. . . . Latest on the New Goodman band: Earl Hines on piano. Keep you fingers crossed