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• in Music
  Music Review: Swing Time
  "At heart I've always been a jazz man." — James Brown
  by fcetier / on Nov 21, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “fats waller”

 

• May 21 in history

  
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  878  Syracuse, Italy was captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily. 879 Pope John VIII gave blessings to Duke Branimir and to Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of Croatian state. 996 Sixteen-year-old Otto III was crowned Holy Roman Emperor. 1502  The island of Saint Helena was ...
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• Happy Birthday! Fats Waller (1904 – 1943)

  
  The Eclectic Ear — Authority: 127
  We celebrate Thomas “Fats” Waller’s 109th birthday this year on Tuesday. Fats Waller was the son of a preacher and learned to play the organ in church with his mother. Against the wishes of his father, Waller became a professional pianist at only 15, working in cabarets and theaters. One of the most ...
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• A SPY FOR DIXIELAND

  
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  Ian Fleming never gave me a thought.  I never had a specially-equipped car, dangerous gadgets.  But I was a spy for Dixieland. In a recent seminar with one of my mentors, Prof. Figg, he asked the question, “What are your secret guilty musical pleasures?” I think the Professor expected that I was listening to ...
  5 days ago

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