Documentary: Fats Waller

Reprinted from http://jazzwax.com

Jazz's folk humor on recordings began with Louis Armstrong and other blues singers in the mid-1920s but was raised to a new level of urbane sophistication by Fats Waller in the 1930s. Here's a documentary on the pianist and composer...

Here's Part 1....

Here's Part 2...

Here's Part 3...

And here's Part 4...

Used with permission by Marc Myers