Fats Waller

Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943), born Thomas Wright Waller, was a jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer.

Read more about Fats Waller:  Early Life, Career, Death, Revival and Awards, In Popular Culture, Key Recordings, Filmography

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    “Fast Eddie, let’s play some pool.”
    —Sydney Carroll, U.S. screenwriter, and Robert Rossen. Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason)

    “Poets that lasting Marble seek
    Must carve in Latine or in Greek,
    We write in Sand, our Language grows,
    And like the Tide our work o’erflows.”
    —Edmund Waller (1606–1687)