Fats Waller
Fats Waller
Thomas Wright "Fats" Wallerwas an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer, whose innovations to the Harlem stride style laid the groundwork for modern jazz piano, and whose best-known compositions, "Ain't Misbehavin'" and "Honeysuckle Rose", were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1984 and 1999...
ProfessionPianist
Date of Birth21 May 1904
CityNew York City, NY
music fats mess
If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it.
garden house bottles
I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely as not, I'd grab a bottle and start swingin' out on 'Squeeze Me' or 'Royal Garden Blues'. The managers complained but, heck, they couldn't stop me!
jazz knows
One never knows, do one?
mother son looks
You could be my son. You even look like me a little bit... Say, who's your mother?
jazz
Jazz isn't what you do; it's how you do it.
pigs feet people
Grab your pig's feet, bread, and gin, there's plenty in the kitchen. I wonder what the poor people are eating tonight?
jazz easy fats
So easy, when you know how.
music nice jazz
This is so nice, it must be illegal.