Fats Waller : Some Piano Rolls (1923-1924-1926-1927).

Here are some Waller's solos transcribed from QRS Piano Rolls original cut in 1923,1924,1926,1927 and downloaded from ''Red Hot Jazz Archive'':
00:12 - '' I'm Coming Virginia'' (Will Marion Cook- D. Hayward) -
Thomas Fats Waller piano roll - N.Y. Nov. 1927 - QRS
4073
04:03 - ''Nobody But My Baby'' (Andy Razaf-Clarence Williams) -
Thomas Fats Waller piano roll - N.Y. Aug. 1927 - QRS
3997
07:39 - ''Squeeze Me'' (Clarence William- Fats Waller) - Thomas
Fats Waller piano roll - N.Y. Febr. 1926 - QRS 3352
11:13 - ''Mama's Got The Blues'' (Sara Martin-Clarence Williams) -
Thomas Fats Waller piano roll - N.Y. Aug. 1923 - QRS
2322
14:06 - ''Your Time Now'' (Spencer Williams) - Thomas Fats Waller
piano roll - N.Y. May 1923 - QRS 2245
16:47 - ''18th Street Strut'' (Bennie Moten-Costello) - Thomas Fats
Waller piano roll - N.Y. March 1926 - QRS 3377
19:54 - ''Got To Cool My Doggies Now'' (Bob Thompson-Spencer
Williams)-Thomas Fats Waller piano roll -
N.Y. March 1923 - QRS 2149
23:35 - ''Last Go Round Blues'' (Jimmy Cox) - Thomas Fats Waller
piano roll - N.Y. Sept. 1923 - QRS 2363
27:26 - ''Clearing House Blues'' (S. Honesty-H. Webb) - Thomas
Fats Waller piano roll - N.Y. July 1924 - QRS 2661.
In this video I have not included the famous Waller's song '' Ain't Misbehavin' '' which is instead present in the list of Waller's piano rolls of ''Red Hot Jazz Archive'' as piano roll QRS 7883
( www.redhotjazz.... ) , because according to the Rollography this roll was published in September 1943 and marked ''played by J. Lawrence Cook '' and not in 1929
( • ''Ain't Misbehavin' ''... ).
In 1929 other 2 piano rolls of this song was published (QRS 4767 and IMPERIAL 07381), but in the WEB I didn't find them (for more see: www.pianola.com... ).
As J. Lawrence Cook states in a letter on the subject (reported at the aforementioned link), ''all rolls labeled as played by "Fats" Waller, were actually recorded by me", as '' Waller gave QRS permission to let me make them '' , while ''the only authentic Waller player roll recordings are those labeled as ''Thomas Waller'' ''. Anyway, listening very carefully to the aforecited QRS 7883 roll, I believe that the performer is not Thomas Waller, the left hand is not from Fats,.
The photographs and the recordings in this video are more then 50 years old. Copyright Disclaimer under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "FAIR USE" .
The intent of this video is for non profit Historic Preservation, Education.

[@scivalesmusicbooks1977]

Since most of these piano rolls seem hand-played and not "doctored", they are a precious document of how a very young Fats Waller played in the early and mid-1920s. Impressive! thanks for sharing!

[@user-lj1xh1mz1w]

I can’t find him doing Alligator Crawl to save my life! LOL smh this is a treat though. Thanks!

[@PopsCoffee]

Great work you are doing with those downloads! Good visuals added, too. Many thanks, carlo simonettic.

[@JuanFecit]

Thanks for sharing!