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Thomas "Fats" Waller had an idea. He chuckled gaily, and stamped his foot with enthusiasm. "Yassuh!" he laughed. "You is gonna c'mon downstairs to de boys' dressin' room and hear dose cats swing on down in a jam session!" He trotted to the elevator, his blue bathrobe swirling to expose a mighty calf. "Are you gonna bring up dat machine fo' yo' Mister Waller, Dad " he called down the shaft...
...down in the dressing room five of his boys were playing something soft and sweet on their saxophones. Fats grinned with pride and said that this was one of his latest compositions, "Jealous of Me." In a corner, writing on a dressing table, sat Dick Donaldson, arranger for the Waller orchestrations, writing notes by the dozens...
...piece orchestra. In his present performances he uses 15 men, and in his recordings he uses only six. After he gets his bing gang together, Fats wants to have a chain of orchestras. "I wants to grab all dose cats that sings and put 'em in Fats Waller units," he said. Fats' favorite colored band is Fletcher Henderson's, while his pet white orchestra is Tommy Dorsey's. He prefers Ambrose to Ray Noble...
...Fats Waller left the dressing room and shouted for the elevator to take him up to his own room again. As he was about to step inside, the faint sounds of an insane, improvised jam tune wafted his way. He shook his massive head with pleasure, waggled an enormous after-deck, and croaked at his interviewer, "Yah-man! De joint is jumpin...
Frederick O. Waller, Eugene, Oregon--University High School, Eugene...