Alta Browne & Bertha Powell With Thomas Waller / Elkins' Negro Ensemble - Gennett 3318 (1926)

A nice surprise to find twenty four year old Fats Waller backing Alta Browne and Bertha Powell on this Gennett from 1926.

This was picked up on a recent trip to St. Louis.

Thomas Waller p / Alta Browne, Bertha Powell v.

Recorded at Gennett studio at 9 East 37th Street, Manhattan, NY on April 13, 1926.

Elkins' Negro Ensemble

Recorded at Gennett studio at 9 East 37th Street, Manhattan, NY on April 22, 1926.

Thomas Waller / With Thomas Morris & His Hot Babies - Victor 21127 (1927)

Thomas Morris c / Jimmy Archey tb / Fats Waller p, or, v / Bobbie Leecan g / ? Eddie King d.

Recorded at Church Studio, Camden, NJ on December 1, 1927.

Elizabeth Smith / Alberta Hunter (With Fats Waller) - Victor 21539 (1927)

Not sure what Rex Stewart's debut recording was but I believe it to be in 1926. This side can't be too far removed from that.

Elizabeth Hunter v / Rex Stewart c / Ernest Elliott, Bob Fuller cl / f / ? Phil Worde p.

Recorded in New York on January 26, 1927.

Alberta Hunter v / Thomas Waller or.

Recorded at Church Studio in Camden, NJ on May 20, 1927.

Thomas Waller - Okeh 4757 (1922)

Stop me if you've heard this one before...

An eighteen year old piano player walks into a recording studio for the first time...

Recorded in New York on October 21, 1922.

Thomas ("Fats") Waller - Victor 25338 (1929)

Here are a couple of piano solos by the great Fats Waller...'nuff said.

Recorded in New York on March 1 (NF) and September 24 (ST), 1929.