C.C. Rider Venerates Fats Waller

At 10 years old Thomas Wright Waller was already playin’ the organ in his father’s church. At 15 Waller won a talent contest with a song he’d learned from watching a player piano. Even though his preacher dad didn’t like it, his son could really rag on those keys. Soon after that talent show, Thomas went pro…

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