Fats Waller News

T he Great Connecticut Traditional Jazz Festival takes place Friday through Sunday at the Sunrise Resort , Route 151 in Moodus, featuring groups and artists from Connecticut and around the country.

Some of the leading lights in the jazz world, including BB KIng and Fats Waller in session at the 1993 Montreux Jazz festival.

The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn will perform acoustic swing jazz at 6 p.m. Sunday, July 27, in Todd Grove Park, marking the 100th Sundays in the Park concert.

Frenchie Davis, the former "American Idol" contestant who made her Broadway debut in Rent , will play a limited engagement at San Francisco's Rrazz Room later this month.

Given the track record of Jubilee Theatre - North Texas' oldest continually running African-American theater company - with the songbooks of classic jazz singers and/or songwriters, the Fats Waller revue ...

Gettysburg College sophomore Rebecca Shaffer of Cranbury traveled to Greece and Italy for a 10-day performance trip with the college's Jazz Ensemble.

The Fats Waller revue 'Ain't Misbehavin'' played Broadway 1,604 times between 1978 and 1982.

POWERHOUSE CHICAGO CAST INCLUDING E. Faye Butler , PARRISH COLLIER, JOHN STEVEN CROWLEY, LINA KERNAN AND ALEXIS ROGERS PERFORMS NEARLY 30 OF FATS WALLER'S TUNES Thirty years after its Tony Award-winning world ...

For almost three decades, Nick's Steakhouse was revered as "the place" in Greenwich Village to hear classic, hot, improvised jazz.

THE first fundraising event for the Friends of St John's Church was held last Saturday.

Artistic director Allen McCalla describes his theater's new season as another year of 'what we do best: family-oriented classic plays.' In its current season -- it concludes its production of 'Fiddler on the ...

Southfield's Burgh Park Gazebo Concert Series resumes 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Burgh Historical Park located on the northeast corner of Civic Center and Berg Road.

Fats Waller was one of the gifted musicians who gained prominence during the Harlem Renaissance, a period during the 1920s when black cultural expression first gained acceptance, and greatly influenced ...

Patrice Covington, left, David Jennings, Starr Domingue, Tony Perry and Rheaume Crenshaw in Ain't Misbehavin' Matunuck.

New Guitar Summit is an ongoing jazz project featuring guitarists Duke Robillard, Gerry Beaudoin, and Jay Geils, who some may remember as the guitarist for a kick-ass '70s blues-rock band out of Detroit that ...

Theatre by the Sea was dead - ' long live Theatre by the Sea! Following a practice production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum last August, the shuttered Matunuck barn theater is open for ...

Sunday, June 1, 2008; Posted: 5:36 PM - by Randy Rice Theatre By The Sea One of the great joys of musical theater is that some productions can transport an audience out of the present, and collectively bring ...

Deliciously lowdown and sassy, there is no shortage of period aura in the energetic revival of "Ain't Misbehavin': The Fats Waller Musical Show," the Generic Theater's final production at its longtime home on ...

YOUR Feet's Too Big, was a hit song for American jazz pianist Fats Waller in 1939, and it could well have been the theme song to Rachel Graham's teenage years, as being in possession of a pair of size-10 feet ...

David Remnick of The New Yorker has compiled a list of 100 Essential Jazz Albums.