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As of January 1, 2025, this recording will be in the US Public Domain.

If we could only bring him back!

Hello, IS THIS the last one or not??? Greetings from Estonia, Lembit.

thanks for this as usual 👍

merci

I Appreciate ya for posting this. You truely are Majestic George.

yooo, they won't take this down right?

I have a memory with Fats Waller. 53 years ago my big brother passed away. I was 17 y. o. and he was 21 y.o. when he passed away. In my sorrow, I listened to Fats Waller's "Sweet Sue", and his happy voice, his marvellous piano play helped me to for a moment to think about something else. Every time i listen to Fats Waller, I remember how he could bring hope and even joy to me in those dark days so long time ago - and how he still is my favorite jazz musician, to bring happiness to me. I hope and wish that there are some kind of forces or power that can bring to you in your Heaven, all mine and others Thanks to you for giving us the joy and happiness of being able to take part of your outstanding and magnificent art!

Published posthumously, in the same year of Joplin's death. Probably written several years before, as it resembles Joplin's earlier style.

This was so lovely to listen to! 🎶 it really is a surprise to read here that Magnetic Rag was not Joplin’s last composition! But rather this excerpt from his opera was the last written work before he passed. A very unique and intense piece with lots of emotion! I enjoyed it much 😄😎 thank you for sharing all these always! Enjoyed your uploads today! Have an awesome weekend! 🙌🏻🍂

Thank you this was a wonderful surprise for me this morning. I love Fat’s and all that good music and dancing this really made my week

When I first heard this rag I kept coming back. Every single day. And I had goosebumps every single day. One of if not Joplin's greatest rag. Thank you for this video, even better with the sheet music!

More recognizable as Joplin

An interesting and I believe rare Joplin that most would not recognize.

Was that a young Lena Horne sitting at that table?

THIS, not boring Schubert, oughtta be taught in music schools, as ear training first. Awesome music.

Beautiful piano ❤

A Real Slow Drag should have been included in this collection. Such a lovely piece, tying with Solace for his most beautiful composition IMO. Joplin's #1 contender in the Nocturne arena.

Oh, WOW!!! Wish we had more of Fats!!! 🤩 Thanks for posting these!!

I think Waller will be remembered most for being the meter by which they adjusted the Atomic Clock.

Fantastic! More than fantastic. These are tunes people have not heard. And Fats--absolutely live. A lyrical miracle.

Different but is it genuine.

I’m sure you could remember me. Anyways great work

IMHO, this was Joplin's finest hour.

Tom’s the best! Made the best of his active period for sure.

Bravo!

I just realized that the score has the wrong time signature.

The New England Conservatory Orchestra do a superb version of this.

Subscribe and like excellent sharing 🛎️🛎️🛎️👈

Such a great, upbeat rag! 🎶😌 thanks for sharing, starting my day off happy now 😃

Thanxs its thew very Best !!! Cheers

Nice upload! It's been a while!

I too love Fats Waller and have an almost complete collection. I praise you George for your attention to this all-time great musician, composer, comedian and personality. He is unfairly taken for granted and in reality is a miracle of music.

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*Continued biography from description:* From there, he would record many sides and scored an abundance of hits with RCA such as “Jitterbug Waltz,” “Honeysuckle Rose,” and “The Joint is Jumpin‘,” becoming one of the most popular jazz & stride pianist of the time, despite the notion that jazz was not a “serious” form of music. Around this point, it had even been said that Waller surpassed his former mentor James P. Johnson in both skill & efficiency when it came to pouncing on the keys. Waller’s other accomplishments include vaudeville appearances with the famous blues singer Bessie Smith, soon after which he wrote the music to the Broadway show “Keep Shufflin'.” In 1927, Waller met the poet and lyricist Andy Razaf where the two would go on to produce major hit songs & singles as well as collaborate on several musicals, the most of popular of which, "Hot Chocolates" would bring them great critical and commercial success from their partnership. By the early 1940s Waller was already earning himself a comfortable living as an entertainer, where he would go one to write the first non-black musical for Broadway by an African American called "Early to Bed," becoming a great hit during it's 1943 premiere. Yet due to it's showcasing in the midst of a musicians' strike against American recording companies, there was no cast album-not even recordings of single songs that actually remain from the show itself. Despite his hit Broadway work being lost within the fabrics of history, Waller would still find himself appearing as an musician, comedian & actor in major films throughout the remainder of career such as his biggest debut on screen being his role in the popular 1943 film "Stormy Weather." Even outside the scopes of appearing on screen, Waller had continued to entertain the nation far & wide with his voice alone, appearing on radio talk shows & broadcasts as early as 1938 and far off into the 40s. Finding major success in his acts of mixing comedical riffs & comments in between his performances, often at his audience, Waller was always known to be the life of the party, said to light up any room as soon as he steps a foot through the doorway. Yet with the his lavish lifestyle of partying also came it’s woes such as excessive drinking and sleepless nights of performing for any crowd be it strangers at a parlor or friends back at home. With his health only continuing to deteriorate due to both of those factors including his sheer size and weight of 285 pounds, contracting influenza by late November of 1943 would prove to be Waller’s final blow. Passing his last hours on the Santa Fe Chief, eastbound from the Zanzibar Club in L.A., he had already been laid up for weeks with the virus. You know that if people partying around the grand piano in the Club Car knew Fats was aboard, he’d have been summoned to perform, so it’s possible he didn’t get to his berth until he’d sweated out a set surrounded by the revelers while the train braved a blizzard, the winter winds of the plains howling outside. As the Chief pounded into Kansas City’s Union Station on the morning of December 15, 1943, Waller’s manager, Ed Kirkeby, found the big man in his berth, unconscious and unresponsive. The coroner’s statement reports that “Acute left influenzal bronchopneumonia” was “the immediate cause of death” with the place of death given as Union Station. To die in Kansas City’s Union Station? As Fats was known to say, “One never knows, do one?” With his death ending a roughly 25 year professional career for the 39 year old entertainer, a formal funeral was shortly held afterwards back in his very own New York City at Abyssinian Baptist Church. With a guest turnout of roughly 4,200 people, many had simply filled the streets to hear the program take place from a loudspeaker, with Waller’s body being cremated in the end & said to be privately spread across Harlem. From rags to riches & widespread face across borders and seas, Fats Waller continues to lighten up the world to this day through his comical recordings, filmed acts, and truly what one can call a dazzling legacy for all to witness.

I've listened to this probably 80 times and most of these down to memory. The progression always fascinates me, the music gradually shifts from jovial and upbeat to more bitter sweet

Fats Waller Live is amazing!

Bonjour, Je viens de découvrir votre site musical ; un seul mot : formidable ! Je m'intéresse depuis peu à la vie musicale de Jelly Roll Morton grâce aussi au livre passionnant d'Alan Lomax ("Mister Jelly Roll"). Et je découvre aujourd'hui la richesse de votre site. Car il est question aussi d'autres musiciens et pour ma part, j'apprécie particulièrement le Dixieland ! Mais je suis ouvert aussi (contrairement, à l'époque, à Hugues Panassié, critique français de jazz) à d'autres approches du jazz (Miles Davis avec son cool jazz - l'intériorité est importante, aussi ! Et ça nous parle au cœur directement ; Charlie Parker, au début,...) mais fermé à d'autres (free jazz, trop "free" pour moi !). Merci grandement à vous ! Good morning, I just discovered your music site ; just one word: fantastic ! I have recently become interested in the musical life of Jelly Roll Morton thanks also to Alan Lomax's fascinating book ("Mister Jelly Roll"). And today I discovered the richness of your site. Because it is also about other musicians and for my part, I particularly appreciate Dixieland ! But I am also open (unlike, at the time, to Hugues Panassié, French jazz critic) to other approaches to jazz (Miles Davis with his cool jazz - interiority is important, too! And it speaks to our hearts directly; Charlie Parker, at the beginning,...) but closed to others (free jazz, too “free” for me!). Thank you very much!

From the Blesch/Janis book on ragtime, here is the story behind 'Swipesy'. As was customary for many ragtime composers, many times the publisher gave the name to each piano piece. Scott Joplin's publisher throughout was John Starke. Now, Mr. Starke used a young shoeshine boy to shine his shoes, and had a photo made of this boy. The way the boy looked in the photo reminded Starke of a child who had just gotten caught 'swiping' some cookies from the cookie jar; thus the name "Swipesy"... Hope you enjoy this bit of ragtime history, much as I enjoy listening to, and playing "Swipesy"

Thank you Majestic George for sharing these precious moments by the great Thomas Fats Waller. Fats wasn't only a great stridepianist but a great singer, actor, and composer too of many songs. It's a long time ago, I bought his first record containing a hand full of Keys , Baby brown, Vipers drag, Tea for two and many others. So good to hear all this music from the earlier twenties and thirties has been saved.🎹🙏

SOOO well played, bravo

I'm only 8 minutes in and I wanna say it was shocking how clear cut #1, Wild Cat Blues is! I was like relieved, comforted, haha, to hear the era-appropriate hiss on later cuts. This is great - you got history - you got photography - you got the feeling of the old decades when my mom and dad were babies. btw wish I understood the piano roll technology, vocabulary. Forgot to say you got virtuoso piano playing🙂 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fats_Waller

Me dejarias poder usar este álbum para mi canal . Yono monetizo y es muy pequeño solo 193 subcritores . Hello! Good morning, I love Jelly Roll Morton and it would be an honor to have him on my channel, so I dare to ask you if you would give me permission to upload him to my Channel. My Channel does not monetize and is small, only 193 people, mostly from my neighborhood. I am from Spain, I am 58 years old and I would love for my people to know the inventor of Jazz. Since I want to do things right, I would tell you that I would put that it is from your channel and that you are the owner of the Copyright. It would be a dream for me, I know it may seem strange to you but economically I am weak and I cannot buy music, nor do I monetize it is to educate my people in the history of modern music. You could look at my channel and if you like any Album you could take it. Giving me permission to take Jelly Roll Morton or not. Whatever your decision, thank you for answering me. I love your channel 🎉

Che piacere sentire questi veri artisti! Grazie per farci rivivere un'epoca musicale fantastica.

Thank you for putting all this rare stuff together, George.

Love this guy; what 100 + years ago ❤

do you have the buddy bolden related recordings he did as well?

I am reading Elijah Wald's new book, "Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs & Hidden Histories". It led me to search for this stuff. Thanks for posting it, it's fucking delightful.

Does anyone know which part or parts in 'Swipesy' were attributed to Arthur Marshall? Seems like I read about it more than a decade ago, but just can't remember this detail. At one time, Arthur Marshall was a student of S. Joplin.