Fats Waller
Noun
Meaning
United States jazz musician (1904-1943)
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Examples
And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
After sessions with Ted Lewis (1931), Jack Teagarden (1931) and Billy Banks ' Rhythmakers (1932), he began in May 1934 the voluminous series of recordings with a small band known as Fats Waller and his Rhythm.
In the 1930s, Fats Waller sometimes played celesta with his right hand and piano simultaneously with his left hand.
Recordings of Fats Waller were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame which is a special Grammy Award established in 1973 to honour recordings that are at least 25 years old and that have "qualitative or historical significance".