Until further notice, WCBN's Face the Music program will be conceived and coordinated according to the principles of what I'm choosing to call Postmodern Fats Waller Theory. Which is another way of saying that Thomas Waller's legacy touches upon nearly everything I ever weave into this program's playlists. Postmodern Fats Waller Theory involves close comparative consideration of COLLABORATION, COMPOSITION and PARALLEL ARTISTRY.

Face the Music 8/28/14

Postmodern Fats Waller Theory I

You’ve Got to be Modernistic

James P. Johnson piano solo 1930

Sneakaway

Willie the Lion Smith piano solo 1939

Railroad Blues

Luckey Roberts piano solo 1946

Cryin’ For My Used To Be

James P. Johnson-Fats Waller

duet player piano roll 1927

I’m Cert’ny Gonna See ‘Bout That

Sara Martin & Clarence Williams

accompanied by Fats Waller 1923

You Get Mad

Rosa Henderson

accompanied by Fats Waller 1926

‘Tain’t Nobody’s Bus’ness If I Do

Sara Martin accompanied by Fats Waller 1922

What Do You Know About That?

Clarence Williams & Joe Sims

accompanied by Fats Waller 1927

How Could I Be Blue?

James P. Johnson & Clarence Williams

piano duet with vocal patter 1930

Jail House Blues

Bessie Smith

accompanied by Irving Johns 1923

Jail House Blues

Fats Waller player piano roll 1924

Wringin’ and Twistin’

Tram, Bix & Lang 1927

The Digah’s Stomp

Fats Waller pipe organ solo 1927

Stingaree Blues

Alberta Hunter

accompanied by Fats Waller 1923

Wild Cat Blues

Clarence Williams Blue Five

featuring Sidney Bechet 1923

Come On and Stomp, Stomp, Stomp

Johnny Dodds’ Black Bottom Stompers 1927

Nagasaki

Albert Ammons & Meade Lux Lewis

piano duet 1939

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upKXARXcsWg

Face the Music 8.21.14

Fats Waller - Film Soundtracks & Live Jams

This broadcast will feature numerous film soundtracks

and open with acetates from a radio jam session involving Louis Armstrong -

the only recordings on which the two men ever collaborated.

on Martin Block’s Make Believe Ballroom radio program, December 12th 1938

Jeepers Creepers

Honeysuckle Rose

On the Sunny Side of the Street

The Blues

I Got Rhythm

Tiger Rag

live on The Magic Key, NBC Network May 24th 1936

I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter

Fats Waller Soundies, recorded November 1940 – released in 1941

Your Feets Too Big

Honeysuckle Rose

Ain’t Misbehavin’

The Joint is Jumpin’

from the film Hooray for Love (1935) 

Living in a Great Big Way

from the film King of Burlesque (1935)

I’ve Got My Fingers Crossed

live on the program Freedom's People (1941)

Honeysuckle Rose

Face the Music 81414

Fats Waller – Last Testament

The Complete V-Disc Session of September 16^th 1943

Ain’t Misbehavin’

Two Sleepy People

Slightly Less Than Wonderful

There’s a Gal in My Life

That’s What the Bird Sang to Me

Waller Jive

Hallelujah

This Is So Nice, It Must Be Illegal

Martinique

The Reefer Song (You’re a Viper)

Solitude

Bouncin’ on a V-Disc

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

The Ladies Who Sing With the Band

To a Wild Rose

Don’t Get Around Much Anymore

St. Louis Blues

Organ Tests

Face the Music 8.07.14

Fats Waller in the Early 1940s

You’re Some Pretty Doll {No. 2}

Fats Waller with Eddie Condon’s Band

featuring clarinetist Pee Wee Russell 1940

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

Fats Waller and his Rhythm

vocal harmony by the Deep River Boys 1942

Fats Waller’s Original E flat Blues

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1940

Sad Sap Sucker Am I

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

All That Meat and No Potatoes

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

Two Bits (Really Fine)

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

Send Me, Jackson

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1940

Buck Jumpin’

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

Up Jumped You With Love

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1942

You Run Your Mouth, I’ll Run My Business

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1940

Liver Lip Jones

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

A Square From Delaware

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1940

You’re Gonna Be Sorry

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941

You Must Be Losing Your Mind

Fats Waller, his Rhythm & Orchestra 1941

Stop Pretending

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1940

Come And Get It

Fats Waller, his Rhythm & Orchestra 1941

Rump Steak Serenade

Fats Waller, his Rhythm & Orchestra 1941

Clarinet Marmalade

Fats Waller & his Rhythm 1941