King of Razz: Homage to Fats Waller
Alfred Appel Jr, 9 May 2002
Fats Waller trying to teach an English woman to jitterbug on the transatlantic liner that returned him to America in 1939 after a long musical tour and happy stay in Britain, where he composed and recorded his ‘London Suite’.
On the eve of World War Two, Fats Waller was, after Louis Armstrong, the jazz musician and jazz entertainer best known and most loved by the American and...