Note: This broadcast initiates 
a projected fourteen week series
dedicated to the Fats Waller Legacy

Face the Music 5.01.14

Fats Waller in the 1920s

Fully half of these recordings

spotlight Fats Waller as

the very first jazz organist

Muscle Shoals Blues

piano solo 1922

St. Louis Blues

pipe organ solo 1926

Birmingham Blues

piano solo 1922

Lenox Avenue Blues

pipe organ solo 1926

Willow Tree

Louisiana Sugar Babes 1928

Loveless Love

pipe organ solo 1927

West Indies Blues

Jamaica Jazzers 1924

Soothin’ Syrup Stomp

pipe organ solo 1927

Geechee

Morris’ Hot Babies 1927

Henderson Stomp

Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1926

Blue Black Bottom Stomp

piano solo 1927

Thou Swell

Louisiana Sugar Babes 1928

The Chant

Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1926

Persian Rug

Louisiana Sugar Babes 1928

Sloppy Water Blues

pipe organ solo 1927

You Don’t Know My Mind Blues

Jamaica Jazzers 1924

Mournful Tho’ts

Jimmy Johnson’s Orchestra 1928

I’m Coming Virginia

Fletcher Henderson’s Orchestra 1926