How To Use Fats Waller In A Sentence
- Chubby, bubbly jazzman Fats Waller was among the first to really get bitten by the London bug.
- It took Fats a tune or two to get over his initial discomfort, but soon he was swinging like only Fats Waller could swing.
- During the interwar years, it would have seemed absurd to separate the two, when jazz greats like Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman appeared on Broadway, Fats Waller and Ellington wrote extensively for the theater, and thousands of show tunes made their way into the jazz canon. New Duo For Jazz, Theater
- In my first collection there's a poem called "Elegy for Fats Waller" in which my hero metamorphoses into the Sheikh of Araby one of his numbers: "Across the deserts of the blues a trail / He blazes, towards the one true mirage, / Enormous on a nimble-footed camel / And almost refusing to be his age. Fats Waller by Michael Longley
- On 14 June 1955 Tony Mottram, the British tennis hope of those days, chose as one of his Desert Island Discs Fats Waller's "Alligator Crawl", a thrilling boogie-woogie rumble. Fats Waller by Michael Longley
- Her father, uncle and Fats Waller-loving grandmother all nurtured her passion for jazz piano, and family singalongs were a regular event.
- Studdard recently took some time to talk about the musical revue, which is about Thomas Wright Waller, better known as Fats Waller. News from www.thesunchronicle.com
