Smashing Thirds

Fats Waller · 1929 · piano solo

Context

Composition by Fats Waller recorded solo on September 24, 1929, at Liederkranz Hall in New York for Victor. Together with "Handful of Keys" (1929, already in the database), it completes the portrait of Waller as a stride pianist.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Stride (Harlem piano). Among the origins and influences of Stride: Ragtime.

By the same artist

• Handful of Keys (1929)
• Ain't Misbehavin' (1929)
• Honeysuckle Rose (1934)

Sources

• adpprod2.library.ucsb.edu

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