The 45 tracks on these two CDs come from a nine-month period that saw Fats Waller reaching the height of his popularity, emphasizing his talents as a singer of light popular songs. While many of the tunes heard here haven’t endured, Waller’s treatment of them certainly does. They bubble with infectious good humor, a matchless charm, a superb …
While a lot of imported Fats sets have come on to these shores, none of them have had the access to the original tapes that this one has. Disc one presents Fats playing his own compositions, disc two is all-instrumental, and disc three features Waller-ized interpretations of Tin Pan Alley standards; between the three, every classic track is …
Nicky’s Jazz For Kids has received The American Library Association’s Notable Children’s Recording Award, The Parents’ Choice Silver Honor Award, The iParenting Media Award, and was chosen as a Parenting Magazine “Parenting Pick.” This jazz for kids CD–the very first and best collection of its kind–provides children with a fun and engaging introduction to jazz with rhyming, fun-filled, …