The Joint Is Jumpin'

The Joint Is Jumpin' Artist: Fats Waller
Label: RCA
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 078635628821
EAN: 0078635628821
ASIN: B000002W9A


Release Date: 1990-10-25

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Listmania:

  1. Rockin' boogie woogie pianists who sing!
  2. 20 cd's I'd have to take, while stranded on a desert island
  3. jazz for real hepcats and swingers baby
  4. Music for mood #3 (that jazzy, mellow, good timey feeling)

Tracks:

  1. Handful Of Keys
  2. The Minor Drag
  3. Numb Fumblin'
  4. Aint Misbehavin' (Piano Solo)
  5. Smashing Thirds
  6. African Ripples
  7. Alligator Crawl
  8. Viper's Drag
  9. Lulu's Back In Town
  10. I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby
  11. S'posin'
  12. Honeysuckle Rose
  13. Blues
  14. Tea For Two
  15. I Ain't Got Nobody
  16. The Joint Is Jumpin'
  17. The Shiek Of Araby
  18. Yacht Club Swing
  19. (When You) Squeeze Me
  20. Your Feet's Too Big
  21. Carolina Shout
  22. Honeysuckle Rose (Piano Solo)
  23. Ain't Misbehavin'

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Good stuff.......2004-05-19

This is a great album. The person who wrote the review comparing Fats to Elton John is freaking nuts. Fats Waller was ten times the musician Elton John could ever hope to be. And as far as piano playing there were few then and practically none now that that can compare with him. Elton John is a punk. This guy was a genius.

4 out of 5 stars A great sampler of the piano/songwriting master's work.......2002-04-06

Fats sure didn't take care of himself, what with his excessive eating and drinking. He died way too young.

In a way, he was the Louis Armstrong of the keyboards, his nimble skill married to joyous abandon, his smiling face and festive performing style etched in the minds of those who have enjoyed his music over the decades. But he was more than a great musician and performer. He was one of the 20th century's major songwriters. "Ain't Misbehavin'" has as important a spot in the pantheon of American song as anything by Gershwin or Berlin.

Fats' influence has extended past what people think of as jazz, though. A prodigious pianist/songster of the latter half of the last century, Elton John, now carries Waller's mantle and, if you don't believe this, all you need to do is hear him play "Bennie And The Jets" live. The point is, of course, that long after Fats' untimely death, his music lives on, fully and well, in the hearts and minds of other musicians and the listening public.

My only complaint about this thoroughly enjoyable CD is that it doesn't contain "Black And Blue," Fats' touching commentary on racism in the pre-civil rights era. Otherwise, I would have given this collection five stars.

5 out of 5 stars Fats is a master........2000-10-28

This compilation has been slighted in reviews that I've read, which is unfortunate. This is a fine compilation of Thomas Waller. It's as good as the Time-Life LPs in presenting Waller who is unfortunately dismissed as merely popular a pianist or quaint curiosity. There wasn't anyone writing popular lyrics in the 30s and 40s that had his gift for invention and for melody. And that certainly includes the Gershwins. Nor was there anyone as prolific--Fats tossed away pop masterpieces (or sold them to hacks for ready cash). What I love about him is the sense of whimsy and the mother wit and satire in the face of the purely commercial aspects of Tin Pan Alley and American racism of his time. He inverts the crass nonsense that the label foists on him and makes it his own with the irony that comes from genius beset by idiocy and the joy that comes from genius celebrating its gifts. This compilation of Bluebird material is representative, and it's a worthy introduction to one of America's musical geniuses. You can't get away from Fats. Just listen to Prairie Home Companion. Better yet, listen to this CD. Go find some others. Then hear Pops play Fats.

4 out of 5 stars Big Fun.......2000-01-18

Okay, it's not the deepest, most meaningful stuff in the world, but it's really FUN. Fats just eats up the keyboard. I like to play this one in my office just to see how long it takes people to tap and hum along. Get it. It was cool then; it's cool now.

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