Fats Waller – The Complete Recorded Works – Vol. 1 – 1922-1929 – Messin’ Around with the Blues – 4 CD

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CD1:
1 Muscle Shoals Blues - 3:19   2. Birmingham Blues - 3:05   3. 'Taint Nobody's Bus'ness If I Do - 2:57   4. You Got Ev'rything a Sweet Mama Needs But Me - 3:02   5. Mama's Got the Blues - 3:18   6. Last Go Round Blues - 3:30   7. Stingaree Blues - 2:40   8. You Can't Do What My Last Man Did - 3:18   9. Sister Kate - 2:52   10. You Can't Do What My Last Man Did - 3:17   11. Trixie Blues - 2:57   12. I'm Cert'ny Gonna See 'Bout That - 2:46   13. Squabbling Blues - 2:58   14. In Harlem's Araby - 2:44   15. You Don't Know My Mind Blues - 2:52   16. West Indies Blues - 2:39   17. Maybe Someday - 3:19   18. (I'm Gonna See You) When Your Troubles Are Just Like Mine - 3:01   19. You Get Mad - 3:00   20. What's the Matter Now? - 2:48   21. Nobody Knows de Trouble I See - 3:02   22. Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray - 2:59   23. Ain't Got Nobody to Grind Ma Coffee - 3:09   24. Mama's Losin' a Mighty Good Chance - 2:53   25. The Henderson Stomp - 2:55   26. The Chant - 2:59

CD2:
1. St Louis Blues - 2:56   2. Lenox Avenue Blues - 2:40   3. What Do You Know About That - 3:02   4. Shut Your Mouth - 3:18   5. Soothin' Syrup Stomp - 3:01   6. Sloppy Water Blues - 3:06   7. Loveless Love - 3:15   8. Messin' Around with the Blues - 3:01   9. The Rusty Pail - 3:05   10. Stompin' the Bug - 3:17   11. Hog-Maw Stomp - 3:10   12. Blue Black Bottom Stomp - 2:57   13. Whiteman Stomp - 2:49   14. I'm Coming Virginia - 3:09   15. Preach the Word - 3:06   16. I'll Just Stand and Ring My Hands and Cry - 3:01   17. True Friendship - 2:57   18. The Christians' Trouble Is Ended - 3:13   19. Sugar - 3:05   20. Sugar - 3:20   21. Beale Street Blues - 3:17   22. Beale Street Blues - 3:08   23. I'm Going to See My Ma - 3:09   24. "Fats" Waller Stomp - 3:28   25. Savannah Blues - 2:59

CD3:
1. Won't You Take Me Home - 2:50   2. My Old Daddy's Got a Brand New Way to Love - 3:09   3. Anything That Happens Just Pleases Me - 2:57   4. I've Got the Joogie Blues - 3:11   5. Florence - 3:08   6. Gone But Not Forgotten - 3:07   7. You Live on in Memory - 3:29   8. Bye-Bye Florence - 3:15   9. He's Gone Away - 2:42   10. I Ain't Got Nobody - 3:14   11. The Digah's Stomp - 3:00   12. Red Hot Dan - 3:28   13. Geechee - 3:02   14. Please Take Me out of Jail - 2:52   15. Back in Your Own Back Yard - 3:21   16. Nobody Knows How Much I Love You - 3:04   17. What's the Use of Being Alone? - 2:42   18. Original Blues - 2:39   19. Willow Tree - 3:26   20. 'Sippi - 3:13   21. Thou Swell - 3:03   22. Persian Rug - 3:33   23. Chicago Blues - 2:50   24. Mournful Tho'ts - 2:59

CD4:
1. You Can't Do What My Last Man Did - 3:15   2. Trixie Blues - 3:04   3. St Louis Blues - 2:46   4. What Do You Know About That - 3:07   5. Shut Your Mouth - 3:24   6. Soothin' Syrup Stomp - 3:20   7. Sloppy Water - 3:32   8. Messin' Around with the Blues - 3:05   9. The Rusty Pail - 3:13   10. Stompin' the Bug - 3:27   11. Hog-Maw Stomp - 3:09   12. "Fats" Waller Stomp - 3:28   13. Savannah Blues - 3:04   14. Won't You Take Me Home - 2:52   15. My Old Daddy's Got a Brand New Way to Love - 3:01   16. Anything That Happens Just Pleases Me - 2:57   17. I've Got the Joogie Blues - 3:06   18. He's Gone Away - 2:38   19. The Digah's Stomp - 3:21   20. Red Hot Dan - 3:21   21. Geechee - 3:08   22. Please Take Me out of Jail - 2:46   23. Willow Tree - 3:38   24. 'Sippi - 3:09   25. Thou Swell - 3:01

Reviews:

1. AllMusic - arwulf arwulf
For decades Fats Waller's recorded legacy has found its way into the lives of jazz heads and regular folks throughout the world, most often in piecemeal fashion through "best-of" collections that fixate upon his most popular recordings from the 1930s and early '40s, or in mammoth "complete editions" inevitably peppered with gaps and flaws. "Messin' Around with the Blues" is volume one in JSP's Complete Recorded Works of Thomas Fats Waller. Spread across four compact discs, one-hundred vintage tracks map nearly every single recording session that Waller participated in between October 21, 1922 and June 18, 1928. Sound is good throughout, and some of the early pressings sound much better than they did when reissued by the Classics label. This comes very close to being the best early Fats Waller reissue project the world has ever seen. Beginning with his first two piano solos, JSP traces young Waller's progress with almost unprecedented thoroughness, following him from date to date as he accompanies vocalists (most notably Alberta Hunter and Rosa Henderson) and comedians (Clarence Williams and Clarence Todd); sits in with bands led by Fletcher Henderson, Thomas Morris, Jimmy Johnson and Johnny Dunn; convenes with Johnson, cornetist Jabbo Smith and multi-reed man Garvin Bushell to make chamber jazz records under the name of the Louisiana Sugar Babes, and establishes himself as the world's very first jazz organist. The rarest material presented here is so uncommon that even lifelong Wallerites might never have caught it before; on May 17, 1927, Waller played organ behind four sermons viscerally delivered by the Rev. J.C. Burnett, assisted in holy roller style by Sisters Ethel Grainger and Odette Jackson. These recordings pick up where Waller and church ladies Alta Browne and Bertha Powell left off with their solemn little pair of sacred songs recorded for Gennett in April 1926. JSP's phenomenal early Waller anthology is outstanding and utterly essential. The only serious omissions appear to be two sides -- "Chloe" and "When You're with Somebody Else" -- recorded with Shilkret's Rhyth-Melodists in early March 1928. How or why these tracks didn't make it onto this otherwise stunningly complete overview of early Fats Waller is anybody's guess. Taken together, the eight CDs comprising volumes one and two in JSP's Complete Recorded Works of Fats Waller are major achievements deserving of highest honors. All that's needed now is for someone to issue every known player piano roll by Waller, Luckey Roberts and James P. Johnson. The rolls need to be played back using the Yamaha Disklavier, a high-tech instrument that was employed to rescue Jelly Roll Morton's piano rolls from oblivion. When this occurs, humanity will at last have taken decisive steps towards paying worthy homage to the Harlem pianists whose music played a decisive role in the rapid evolution of jazz and popular music during the first half of the 20th century.

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