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Exuberance Is The Spontaneity Of Life

Tom Without Pity | A Major Midwestern Metropolis | 06/19/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is a ten CD release by Documents Classics, a bare bones box set

with nothing but the music. There are no liner notes, pictures--save the cover photo--or anything else. Each CD comes in an individual cardboard sleeve with correctly numbered song titles listed.



But what's included, the music, is priceless. The keyboard and vocal joy and exuberance by Fats Waller, captured on these 185 sides all recorded between 1928 until his untimely passing in 1943, are something most music buffs will want to repeat many times over without tiring of them.



Almost every type of musical setting is included in this box. You can hear Fats with his marvelous small group, with his big band and you can listen to him doing a wonderful, playful job on different organs.



These CDs sound okay on my system and at the price they are offered are a remarkable bargain. And on most every cut, Fats Waller proves that "exuberance is the spontaneity of life," once and for all.

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L0 CDs, quality and quantity

Gerald Dalton | Chicago, Illinois | 03/21/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"How could one go wrong--l0 Cds of the music of one of Jazz's greatest pioneers and with Louis Armstrong its greatest entertainer. If people listened two a couple of the tunes of either musician per day. the psychoanalysis business would go under within the year. One cannot hear either man and be depressed. Here are ten CDs of Waller's work, including some organ pieces, which are superb."