Fats Waller - The Chronological Classics: 1939 '1997

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. London Suite - Piccadilly (1:47)
02. London Suite - Chelsea (2:50)
03. London Suite - Soho (2:59)
04. London Suite - Bond Street (2:53)
05. London Suite - Limehouse (3:20)
06. London Suite - Whitechapel (3:16)
07. Smoke Dreams of You (2:58)
08. You Can't Have Your Cake and Eat It (3:19)
09. Honey Hush (3:18)
10. I Used to Love You (2:50)
11. Wait and See (3:09)
12. You Meet the Nicest People in Your Dreams (2:55)
13. Anita (3:17)
14. What a Pretty Miss (2:37)
15. Squeeze Me (3:09)
16. Bless You (3:20)
17. It's the Tune That Counts (3:07)
18. Abdullah (2:59)
19. Who'll Take My Place? (2:56)
20. Bond Street (3:16)
21. It's You Who Taught It to Me (2:43)
22. Suitcase Susie (2:47)
23. Your Feet's Too Big (3:07) 

This is worth having just for the sake of the "London Suite," a set of six piano
impressions conceived, composed and recorded in England during the summer of
1939. The music is as much about Fats Waller's Harlem as it is about that older
metropolis on the other side of the Atlantic. There are gentle moments of deep
reflection, a bluesy portrait of the red light district and a healthy dose of
full-tilt Harlem/London stride piano at its hottest. It's a musical lexicon of
the artist's every mood. "Piccadilly" runs like hot butter. "Chelsea" is
precious as dew clinging to long blades of sweet grass. The beautiful "Soho"
seems like an ennobled version of "Stompin' at the Savoy." "Bond Street" is more
working class, almost as if patterned after the rhythms of feet on pavement.
"Limehouse" is all delicacy, and "Whitechapel" disarmingly somber. Fats finished
up his English adventure with two performances on pipe organ, then attempted a
quick tour of mainland Europe. Passing through Germany, he stepped off the train
for a beer and met up with a team of goose-stepping Nazis! Re-boarding as
swiftly as possible, Fats could not be persuaded to budge from his seat until
the locomotive had escorted him permanently off of German soil. Waller was
well-informed: "That rascal Hitler don't like my kind of music!" Back in New
York, Americans were consuming his records as fast as he could make them. Fats
said that he heard the melody he used for "Honey Hush" in bird songs at dawn
after staying up all night walking through London. "Anita" was written in honor
of his beautiful wife. He poured equal amounts of humor and musical dexterity
into "What a Pretty Miss" and especially "You Meet the Nicest People in Your
Dreams." The session of August 10, 1939 is notable for a sultry version of
Waller's early hit, "(When You) Squeeze Me," and a splendid ensemble setting of
"Bond Street" from the "London Suite." It would have been wonderful if they'd
adapted all six movements for this band, but there wasn't time. And Fats didn't
even make it to the age of forty. "Abdullah" is a fine example of Tin Pan
Alley's penchant for ethnic confusion; the subject of this song was apparently
the "king of Amazoola" who "took a trip to Honolulu" where, of course, he became
infatuated with a Polynesian woman named Lulu. Luckily, Fats and His Rhythm make
wonderful sense out of this inane exercise. Three sides cut on November 3, 1939
round off this chronology nicely: "It's You Who Taught It to Me" begins with a
strange group vocal, while "Suitcase Susie" depicts a young lady who traveled
extensively and then "married the guy next door." "Your Feet's Too Big" is
deservedly famous, but seems to have been made after the version used in a short
film. Anyone who listens to both renditions will agree that on this Bluebird
recording, Fats appears to be trying to re-create the spontaneously clever
things he said on the film soundtrack, right down to the pedal extremities being
"obnoxious" and that famous last line: "one never knows, do one?"
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