Fats Waller & His Rhythm - A Handful Of Keys

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 58:46
Size: 134.6 MB
Label: Buddha
Styles: Piano jazz, Traditional jazz
Year: 1999
Art: Front

[1:05] 1. Ain't Misbehavin'
[3:01] 2. The Joint Is Jumpin'
[3:01] 3. Inside (Aka Inside This Heart Of Mine)
[2:15] 4. I Had To Do It
[2:49] 5. E Flat Blues
[2:28] 6. Hold My Hand
[2:54] 7. Stop Beatin' 'round The Mulberry Bush
[2:31] 8. What's The Matter With You
[1:35] 9. Hallelujah!
[3:26] 10. What's Your Name
[2:38] 11. I Simply Adore You
[2:29] 12. My Best Wishes
[1:57] 13. Handful Of Keys
[3:16] 14. The Sheik Of Araby
[4:01] 15. The Flat Foot Floogie
[1:58] 16. St. Louis Blues
[3:34] 17. Pent Up In A Penthouse
[3:40] 18. Honeysuckle Rose
[2:37] 19. I Got Rhythm
[2:12] 20. Some Of These Days
[2:01] 21. After You've Gone
[3:10] 22. Yacht Club Swing

A HANDFUL OF KEYS features previously unreleased live radio transcriptions originally broadcast in 1938. Recorded live at NBC Studios and The Yacht Club, New York, New York in 1938. Includes liner notes by Will Friedwald. As a label, the U.K. 's Proper does a pretty decent job of assembling a great cross-section of tracks, decent sound, and fairly annotated notes (though labels names seldom if ever appear either in liner notes or in track notations, only catalog number... hmmmm) all for a really great price. Hardcore fans of most artists will either have most or all of the material in their boxes, but those curious enough to look deeper into an artist than a single- or double-disc hits package will want to investigate Proper's catalog. This set of Fats Waller material covers the years 1922 -1943, virtually his entire professional career. Each disc has its own title and runs basically chronologically, from his solo work through his many ensembles. This is a laymen's collection, and is hardly exhaustive of any period, rather merely representative. True fans will want to seek out the RCA sets which are exhaustive in their research, presentation and execution. This is a fine introductory package, but that's it. ~ Thom Jurek

Fats Waller (vocals, piano); Gene Sedric (tenor saxophone, clarinet); Herman Autrey (trumpet); Al Casey (guitar); Cedric Wallace (bass); Slick Jones (drums). Producers: Mike Ragogna, Glenn Korman, Will Friedwald.

Recording information: NBC Studios, New York, NY (07/05/1938-10/18/1938); Yacht Club, New York, NY (07/05/1938-10/18/1938).

A Handful Of Keys

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