Fats Waller - The Joint is Jumpin'

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  • Опубліковано 4 бер 2009
  • Fats Waller brings us this magnificent performance of The Joint is Jumpin' from the year 1937.
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    Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, violinist, singer, and comedic entertainer. His innovations in the Harlem stride style laid the groundwork for modern jazz piano.
    #FatsWaller #TheJointisJumpin

КОМЕНТАРІ • 152

  • @baxter5431
    @baxter5431 11 років тому +64

    True story: Fats was in Paris and was allowed to play the organ at Notre Dame Cathedral. He started quite seriously by actually playing 1 or 2 Bach chorales and THEN, he would take off on them, turning them into jazz. A shame that no one had the foresight to record those forever lost instances. He died en route to a playing engagement, on a train in his compartment. Sadly, he was a big drinker & would sell some of his music manuscripts for a mere fifth of liquor.

    • @kevinmcbride7043
      @kevinmcbride7043 Рік тому +5

      I wish I hadn't read that! it makes me quite sick to think of the lost opportunity.

    • @lonniesnyder2388
      @lonniesnyder2388 9 місяців тому +1

      I find it sad that so many of the best artists & musicians throughout history have cut their lives short via substance abuse.

    • @jkplays7485
      @jkplays7485 9 місяців тому +2

      @@lonniesnyder2388 well this was 80 years ago, it was very common

    • @dudefrombelgium
      @dudefrombelgium 3 місяці тому

      He is playing the organ in heaven now.

  • @pauld7827
    @pauld7827 14 днів тому

    My father in law introduced me to Fats, what a musician and performer.

  • @jerryzabin
    @jerryzabin 2 місяці тому +1

    Fats Waller was among the VERY BEST entertainers of ALL TIME....Gone WAY too soon, his light burned brightly and continues to inspire and entertain all these decades later.

  • @16nowhereman
    @16nowhereman 2 роки тому +8

    When I first heard this song, I said, "this is Rock N Roll."

  • @AndyKaknes
    @AndyKaknes Рік тому +4

    John Hamilton (Trumper), Gene Sedric (Tenor Sax & Clarinet), Fats Waller (Piano & Vocals), Al Casey (Guitar), Cedric Wallace (Bass), Wilmore Jones (Drums), Myra Johnson (Vocals).

  • @marydionne2491
    @marydionne2491 28 днів тому +1

    Thanks for keeping this
    I watch it once year or so
    I have for twenty years.

  • @kevinmcbride7043
    @kevinmcbride7043 3 роки тому +31

    For me, the musician of the 20th century. His piano playing was astonishing, as if the machine were a part of him, he wrote and performed some of the most beautiful songs ever produced, and sang with that unequalled, heart-rending voice. He was the only person who was able to combine raunchy jazziness with extreme poignancy and also humour - just listen to 'gonna sit right down and write myself a letter'. When will we see his like again?

    • @SELMER1947
      @SELMER1947 Рік тому +2

      100% agree ! Fats was a genius pianist, genius organist, genius composer, genius singer, genius leader, genius entertainer...that's a enormous shame he is never quoted among the greatest musicians of the 20th century !!!!

    • @normanklein3155
      @normanklein3155 Рік тому

      Yes, I agree. But I think that Roy Clark was the second coming of Fats Waller and is comparable in terms of musicianship.

  • @alphalives
    @alphalives 14 років тому +21

    This is the best thing that has been done anywhere ever.

  • @billbobaggins801
    @billbobaggins801 3 роки тому +34

    I just found him today in 2021, and being a 51 year old white guy. He was an amazing musician. I wish I could have been in this Era of life. You really had to know your stuff......what a blessing to have such a video.

    • @BM-979
      @BM-979 2 роки тому +2

      I got his complete discography box set. His catalogue is unreal and in many styles depending on the decade. He was extremely prolific and not including all the songs he wrote for other people that became hits. The only one in our era with a output like him would be ghostface killah. Easily one of the greatest singer songwriters in American history and that’s not even delving into his comedic talents on film.

    • @granddaddy_funk
      @granddaddy_funk Рік тому +1

      I'm glad you could join us LOL, no hate or anything but, why do people find the need to mention their age race and sex whenever they discover a new song? I'm just messing around by the way

  • @michaeldeel1592
    @michaeldeel1592 Рік тому +2

    dude i just had a terrible morning emotionally, so i searched up E standard tuning, to tune my guitar by ear, and somehow i found these old music videos, i like this, made me happy to see these people dancing, not to mention the huge swig dude took at 1:01 (:

  • @RonCarterBassist
    @RonCarterBassist Рік тому +1

    Memorable.

  • @dudedad629
    @dudedad629 12 років тому +50

    Waller was a classically trained brilliant pianist and organist who loved Bach

    • @LitReflex001
      @LitReflex001 4 роки тому +10

      Dude that is nothing. This guy with his vocabulary is of a higher level of intelligence. "Your pedal extremities are quite obnoxious."

    • @lordemed1
      @lordemed1 3 роки тому +2

      @@LitReflex001 Fats was brilliant

    • @Mohagnito94
      @Mohagnito94 2 роки тому +3

      @@LitReflex001 your pedal extremities are colossal!

    • @leonardoiglesias2394
      @leonardoiglesias2394 2 роки тому

      And Paul McCartney said: our favorite composer was Bach….
      Well….I‘d say….they both had quite good taste….nothing with that Mozart and Vivaldi nonsense, would John Cleese say…

  • @chrisburnett1424
    @chrisburnett1424 11 років тому +9

    What great music. I would have to give him credit for Rock & Roll!!!

  • @tracer740
    @tracer740 11 років тому +10

    How, ... just how could anyone not love this! ? ???

  • @rastaman7260
    @rastaman7260 Місяць тому

    Happy Birthday Fats Waller Thanks for your music.

  • @bemak78
    @bemak78 11 років тому +5

    That joint was jumpin! Soul train baby. . Lol. I love it!

  • @Thinking_Fast_And_Slow
    @Thinking_Fast_And_Slow 2 місяці тому

    One of the greatest entertainers of all time! He just makes you smile😊

  • @jeffantonson5353
    @jeffantonson5353 8 років тому +19

    While I've listened to jazz for a long time I never really discovered Fats Waller until I read James Baldwin. Amazing!

  • @itsdandamage
    @itsdandamage 11 років тому +6

    fats is just one of my all time favorites

  • @pamelajackson495
    @pamelajackson495 3 роки тому +4

    I love the love in the comments section, the love and the history that's not regularly taught. It amazes me that there's music and musicians who are not getting the recognition they so richly deserve! I hear funny and great quotes from Fats Waller and had to see him for myself! Thank you for posting this video and everyone who took the time to share the love and knowledge. I really appreciate you! 😘

  • @carypasseroff3331
    @carypasseroff3331 Місяць тому

    BANG!

  • @fearghal10
    @fearghal10 9 років тому +11

    When he flashes his devilish, charming smile he sorta ooks like a young Orson Wells.

  • @andrewbarrett1537
    @andrewbarrett1537 4 роки тому +11

    The piano solo he takes at 2:09 is FIRE

    • @josiah566
      @josiah566 10 місяців тому

      The only other person I've ever seen pull off that initial riff at that speed was Louis Mazetier when he played Runnin Wild with Rossano Sportiello in 2009.

    • @themajesticgeorge
      @themajesticgeorge 4 місяці тому

      Best thing I always find about it is that he pulls it off while struttin' his comedic expressions at the same time like it's nothing. He truly wasn't playing a character, he *was* one.

  • @NickHanley
    @NickHanley 4 роки тому +1

    I cry when I hear Fats. So much love Fats. Maurice, your dad was something else. So much love. ♥️♥️♥️

  • @yungsimmmie9835
    @yungsimmmie9835 8 років тому +6

    This joint is jumpin'!

  • @geraldjohnson848
    @geraldjohnson848 8 років тому +2

    May 21: Happy birthday Jazz pianist-composer thomas "Fats" Waller (1904-1945) Thank you and God bless. Thanks for the upload, Luiz Paulo Carcalho. RIP "Fats." Blessings

  • @amberola1b
    @amberola1b 12 років тому +5

    I`ve seen these types of films before, this is what is known as a "Soundie" an early music "video" that played in primitive rear screen projection juke boxes that used a kind of 16 mm projector. This is a reissue. The original images and titles were printed backwards and reflected off a mirror in the juke box and projected right side up on a glass screen. The films cost 10 cents per view.

  • @brocklanders6172
    @brocklanders6172 8 років тому +3

    Pure awesomness.

  • @budahbaba7856
    @budahbaba7856 4 роки тому

    If i had a time machine, i would get stuck living Fats Waller shows, instead of being a sworn time traveler! :)

  • @donnarozon2362
    @donnarozon2362 11 років тому +1

    Lovin Fats. pure genius.

  • @fredhammond3613
    @fredhammond3613 11 років тому +5

    It is from the musical Ain't Miss behaving.

  • @dwmiller63
    @dwmiller63 7 років тому +3

    Best way to start a day ever!

  • @Joelwee1028
    @Joelwee1028 12 років тому +5

    Fats's face is hilarious in this video.

    • @rfichokeofdestiny
      @rfichokeofdestiny 4 роки тому +1

      Joelwee1028 He was quite a ham. Would’ve loved to have met him.

  • @frilansspion
    @frilansspion 12 років тому +4

    haha love this song and video! these guys knew how to partay. look at those smiles

  • @flash001USA
    @flash001USA 11 років тому +6

    I have heard some of the songs but I have never seen these videos! These are killer!

    • @veronicagrey9782
      @veronicagrey9782 3 роки тому +1

      I'm so glad that these musicians were filmed so often back then.

  • @markhaley940
    @markhaley940 Рік тому

    da good kind of fats: Waller. And don't forget Lyricist Andy Razaf collaborator on most of Fats' hits , born Andrea Paul Razafkeriefo in Washington DC on December 16, 1895.The son of a Madagascar nobleman and a nephew of Queen Ranavalona, III, of Madagascar whose parents immigrated from there.

  • @varadero1839
    @varadero1839 10 років тому +5

    An amazing production, with the original "Fats!" Thanks so much for posting!

  • @vincentpowell9989
    @vincentpowell9989 Рік тому

    One of the GREATS!!!!!!!

  • @johnbishop5316
    @johnbishop5316 3 роки тому +1

    Many years ago there was a Wolverhamption publican, Tommy Burton, who played in the pub and did other gigs. One of his many talents was to be able to do Fats numbers spot on, face as well. There are some tracks on youtube of him. Some are his performances on Pebble Mill at One. Once, memorable, with Les Dawson. In the 70s and 80s I used to see him perform regularly. It was such a good night out. Check him out.

  • @frankconti6591
    @frankconti6591 2 роки тому

    ‘🔱🎭🎵 ‘Love the Story ‘ 🎶

  • @teagiagiteakarotu7027
    @teagiagiteakarotu7027 4 місяці тому

    Sad story❤😢

  • @corc1130
    @corc1130 12 років тому +7

    the singer is Myra Johnson, who did 3 film shorts of jazz songs. She's in imdb but I can't find any other info on her.

  • @katiegrundle9900
    @katiegrundle9900 10 місяців тому

    i never play piano without a hat on for now on!

  • @70sgirl1961
    @70sgirl1961 11 років тому +3

    Loving this!

  • @ValiantFerguson
    @ValiantFerguson 9 років тому +3

    Yay!

  • @SELMER1947
    @SELMER1947 8 років тому +1

    Great Great Great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @judissima
    @judissima 10 років тому +2

    Love it!

  • @FELINEGUARD
    @FELINEGUARD 12 років тому +2

    FELINEGUARD WILL SPELL IT OUT FOR HUMANS:
    best music video ever made

  • @kylie12mama
    @kylie12mama 11 років тому +2

    Wish I could play like him.

  • @jonnyfresh23
    @jonnyfresh23 Рік тому

    The greatest

  • @leonardoiglesias2394
    @leonardoiglesias2394 2 роки тому

    There was an old used record shop in my town in South America in the 60-70ties….he sold mostly 78rpm….and mostly classic jazz…Waters, Armstrong, Beiderbecke, Ellington….
    Once I realised the Fats Waller records were twice or three times the price of the other stuff….he sold them that expensive just because he thought, Waller was so good, he expressed his opinion in the price….imagine such a thing today…

  • @JoshuaMcGary
    @JoshuaMcGary 11 років тому +1

    Good music

  • @im1sinfulman
    @im1sinfulman 3 роки тому

    THANK YOU FOR SHARING

  • @Kievest
    @Kievest 10 років тому +8

    Genius! Thank you for posting this sparkling gem!

    • @redthepost
      @redthepost 5 років тому

      TIMELESS TREASURES look at the way she’s switchin’...don’t give your real name, oh no, no,no...😁

  • @chaxmin
    @chaxmin Рік тому

    🤩🤩

  • @piper888
    @piper888 8 років тому +10

    greatest entertainer of his time as great as Satchmo

  • @dangerchris1915
    @dangerchris1915 6 місяців тому

    If you didn't know, at some point Al Capone had Fats Waller kidnapped to play his birthday party.
    The party was great and Fats was well paid, from what I recall he had a great time and spoke fondly of the incident.

  • @jazzclownproductions
    @jazzclownproductions 4 роки тому +1

    Fuck yeah!!!

  • @veronicagrey9782
    @veronicagrey9782 3 роки тому +4

    Presumably, this was a film version of a rent party.

  • @robertdiotalevi2882
    @robertdiotalevi2882 10 років тому +2

    A joint like that could ruin a man…if he was lucky!

  • @neilh3009
    @neilh3009 8 років тому +5

    Sep 26, 1941 The “Fats” Waller “Soundies”
    RCA Studios, 411 Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York.
    John Hamilton, t; Gene Sedric, cl/ts; Fats Waller, p/v; Al Casey, g; Cedric Wal-lace, sb; Slick Jones, d; Myra Johnson, v.

  • @Hot80s
    @Hot80s 8 років тому +29

    1:34
    check your weapons at the door. see nothing has changed

    • @jimthompson939
      @jimthompson939 4 роки тому +2

      casting aspersions

    • @andrewbarrett1537
      @andrewbarrett1537 4 роки тому +1

      A party's a party dude

    • @johnbishop5316
      @johnbishop5316 3 роки тому +1

      Nothing has changed? It costs a good bit more than a quarter. Where have you been?

  • @robertdiotalevi2882
    @robertdiotalevi2882 10 років тому +2

    The broad at 1:44 pitches like John Lester..a ball low and outside!.

  • @ramonasidneybaker
    @ramonasidneybaker 12 років тому +1

    he is the last person I would think of on the "SERIOUS MUSICIANS" list!

  • @rememberourmusic53
    @rememberourmusic53 8 років тому +5

    How wonderful of you to remember Fats Waller, “the black Horowitz”. Today, May 21st 2016 is the 102nd anniversary of his birth. Please check out my youtube channel honoring Fats and other great African-American musicians like Ernest Hogan, “father of ragtime”; Robert Johnson, “king of the Delta blues singers” Sidney Bechet (the first notable jazz saxophonist); and James Brown, godfather of soul - all born in the month of May.

  • @hughtonks
    @hughtonks 5 років тому

    The tempo marking for this piece is "Tempo di-sturb de neighbors"

  • @CBLOVE2856
    @CBLOVE2856 5 років тому

    1941 rave - The joint is jumpin. The first recorded rave in history.

  • @vincentsammartino3509
    @vincentsammartino3509 Рік тому

    Uncle Joey brought me here.

  • @steveboateng1733
    @steveboateng1733 9 місяців тому +1

    Fats Waller facial expression is creepy af but I respect him as a pianist definitely

  • @LalisasToxicHusband
    @LalisasToxicHusband 5 років тому +2

    First music video ever?

  • @exodia333
    @exodia333 12 років тому +1

    well then

  • @robertdiotalevi285
    @robertdiotalevi285 7 років тому

    1:44 A ball low and outside.

  • @agamaz5650
    @agamaz5650 10 років тому +1

    how old is this video? thanks. btw. very nice :)

  • @jenniferj.5209
    @jenniferj.5209 4 роки тому

    Family

  • @bootreese1
    @bootreese1 11 років тому +2

    All entertainers were kind of silly in those days. It's called entertainment.

    • @pamelajackson495
      @pamelajackson495 3 роки тому

      We have gotten so far removed from entertainment it's not funny!

    • @stephenzanichkowsky4434
      @stephenzanichkowsky4434 Рік тому

      @@pamelajackson495 And that bastid could really play! I have some of his early "piano rolls" on vinyl.

  • @goldenoldiesPete
    @goldenoldiesPete 7 років тому +3

    What film was this taken from?

  • @cosmusart
    @cosmusart 12 років тому +2

    does anyone know who the female singer is? and what movie is this from?

  • @corc1130
    @corc1130 12 років тому +1

    Fats wrote this in 1929. Andy Razaf wrote the lyrics.

  • @tarquin45
    @tarquin45 11 років тому +3

    They say there's nothing new in life and it's illustrated in the line where it says 'Check your weapons at the door.' I never realized people would be 'tooled up' (as we say in the UK) in those far off days. Surprisingly sad.

  • @kiwitrainguy
    @kiwitrainguy 6 років тому +2

    Copyright MCMXLI (1941) by OFFICIAL FILMS, INC.

    • @kiwitrainguy
      @kiwitrainguy 6 років тому

      It's at 0.04 but only for a second. Don't worry, I'm not trying to turn you in to the authorities. I don't want to lose my chance to watch this vid, I love it.

    • @BenDRobinson
      @BenDRobinson 4 роки тому

      @@kiwitrainguy also in regular numbers at the close... On my first viewing I got my Roman numerals muddled up (shame) and thought "Wow! 1916?! That's amazing!"

  • @sirsoftspoken
    @sirsoftspoken 3 роки тому

    Is that Chick Webb on the kit? If so, this flick has some incredible star power.

    • @mycolortv1
      @mycolortv1 2 роки тому

      No...Chick Webb was never in Fats band..

  • @treetop1283
    @treetop1283 3 роки тому +2

    One never knows do one?

  • @FrancisCWolfe
    @FrancisCWolfe 4 роки тому +1

    What is the drummer on?

  • @marcofiorito9683
    @marcofiorito9683 11 років тому

    sorry mates,in what film is there this song?

  • @kukumuniu5658
    @kukumuniu5658 3 роки тому

    The Janis Is Joplin

  • @user-nn7dn2wr7l
    @user-nn7dn2wr7l 7 місяців тому

    Отсутствие технологий люди компенсировали умением. Обратная тенденция удручает(.
    Уоллер красавчик)!

  • @raygordonteacheschess5501
    @raygordonteacheschess5501 6 років тому

    Was it ever made clear exactly which joint was jumping?

    • @rrutledge4895
      @rrutledge4895 3 роки тому

      Whatever joint Fats stepped into 😂

  • @drjukebox
    @drjukebox 11 років тому +1

    So what happened to Winnie Johnson?

  • @hellodude1021
    @hellodude1021 12 років тому +3

    jack black actually does a convincing fats

  • @quintonparker9665
    @quintonparker9665 6 років тому +1

    Is that Charlie Parker on alto??
    Time line doesn’t seem right.

  • @robertdiotalevi2882
    @robertdiotalevi2882 10 років тому +2

    Are you really trying to tell me the drummer was not on something?

    • @andrewbarrett1537
      @andrewbarrett1537 4 роки тому +2

      Slick Jones looks like he was concentrating really, really hard in this.
      In making a 'soundie', all the music was pre-recorded for the film, then the recording played back, and everyone on the film set had to basically lip-sync (or instrument-sync) what they had played before to their original recording. Some people handled it perfectly. Other people got nervous. Slick Jones looks like he's trying really hard to remember WHAT he played on his drum solo so he could 'mime' it well enough to be acceptable for the film.

  • @willygmusic7860
    @willygmusic7860 3 роки тому

    Seriously what is the point of the dislike button

  • @cassiadeleon4101
    @cassiadeleon4101 2 роки тому +1

    Joint here means marihuana?

  • @leightonjulye
    @leightonjulye 8 років тому

    this is fats domino

  • @weepeee
    @weepeee 10 років тому +1

    He made it he ( they , we , he dem der ) they , he made it go fats. If it's a joke as said below , perhaps it can bee recieved to be on "them " uh. !,lol!?!!M

  • @teifl5141
    @teifl5141 3 роки тому

    Amerikans drinking alcohol in a music video. That country has seen better times than now.

  • @LeeyaK
    @LeeyaK 10 років тому +1

    I think Ramona just meant, he was silly, not that he wasn't impressive.

  • @gahrzahk
    @gahrzahk 10 років тому +2

    A white police officer dancing with an African American woman in 1935? PROGRESSIVE!

    • @mycolortv1
      @mycolortv1 6 років тому +1

      He's not white light skin Black guy

  • @gerard228
    @gerard228 4 роки тому

    this is played almost twice original speed. terrible, try another.

    • @andrewbarrett1537
      @andrewbarrett1537 3 роки тому

      Try this dub, it sounds much more natural:
      ua-cam.com/video/PhXr6qenrPU/v-deo.html

    • @andrewbarrett1537
      @andrewbarrett1537 3 роки тому

      This is the best overall dub I've found, although the image quality is fuzzy, but the audio is warm and full: ua-cam.com/video/GNHYZfyqcss/v-deo.html

    • @stephenzanichkowsky4434
      @stephenzanichkowsky4434 Рік тому

      I disagree. There are other versions at about the same speed...

  • @bemak78
    @bemak78 11 років тому +1

    Love it!!!