Track Listing
1. Minor Drag, The
2. Harlem Fuss
3. Lookin' Good But Feelin' Bad
4. I Need Someone Like You
5. Lookin' for Another Sweetie
6. Ridin' But Walkin'
7. Won't You Get Off It, Please?
8. When I'm Alone
9. Willow Tree
10. 'Sippi - (Take 1)
11. 'Sippi - (Take 2)
12. Thou Swell - (Take 2)
13. Thou Swell - (Take 3)
14. Persian Rug
15. Fats Waller Stomp
16. Savannah Blues
17. Won't You Take Me Home?
18. He's Gone Away
19. Red Hot Dan
20. Geechee
21. Please Take Me Out of Jail

Personnel: Fats Waller (piano, organ), Henry "Red" Allen (trumpet), Jabbo Smith, Tom Morris (cornet), Jack Teagarden (trombone), James P. Johnson (piano), Bobbie Leecan (guitar), Gene Krupa (drums).

Personnel: Fats Waller (piano); Four Wanderers (vocals); Bobby Leecan (guitar); Eddie Condon, Will Johnson (banjo); Garvin Bushell (clarinet, bassoon, alto saxophone); Charlie Holmes (clarinet, alto saxophone); Arville Harris (reeds); Albert Nicholas, Otto Hardwick (alto saxophone); Larry Binyon (tenor saxophone); Leonard Davis, Charlie Gains, Henry "Red" Allen (trumpet); Jabbo Smith, Thomas Morris (cornet); Jack Teagarden (trombone, vibraphone); J.C. Higginbotham, Jimmy Archey, Charlie Irvis (trombone); James P. Johnson (piano); Eddie King , Gene Krupa, Joseph "Kaiser" Marshall (drums).

Liner Note Author: Richard Hadlock.

Recording information: Camden, NJ (05/20/1927-12/18/1929); New York, NY (05/20/1927-12/18/1929).

This CD has most of Fats Waller's best band recordings of the '20s, including eight selections by his "Buddies" (highlighted by "The Minor Drag" and "Harlem Fuss"), six (counting two alternate takes) from the Louisiana Sugar Babes (an odd quartet featuring Waller's organ and James P. Johnson's piano), and seven selections on which Waller sits in with cornetist Thomas Morris' Hot Babies in 1927. Surprisingly, other than his scat vocal on "Red Hot Dan," Fats Waller is heard strictly as a pianist but his talents were so giant as an instrumentalist that one never minds. With trombonists Charlie Irvis and Jack Teagarden and trumpeters Red Allen and Jabbo Smith among the strong supporting cast, the one word for this superior CD is hot.