Fats Domino, one of the most influential rock and roll performers of the 1950s and 60s, has died aged 89.
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...and a particular influence on the 60s White R&B groups and Ernest Evans' change of name to Chubby Checker. RIP FatsOriginally posted by Pianorak View PostComment
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The great Fats Domino is dead
So sad to see the death announced of the incomparable Fats Domino. So much joy he gave me down through the years.
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Fats was my intro to "jazz". My older brother was in the Merchant Navy and brought his first albums back from the States in the late 50s. Wonderful little band with excellent players, Lee Allen tenor in particular, but all of them. The track "So long" has a gorgeous floating alto solo which I think is a part lift from Bird with Jay Mcshann. Magic and there were lots like that.Originally posted by cloughie View Post
There are some great clips of Fats at the Antibes Jazz Fest in the 60s. RIP Antoine.Comment
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I seem to remember Fats Domino being our entrée to R&B in the UK of the late 1950s, rather than Ray Charles. That instrumental riff on "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans" remains one most joyful to sing while making ones way through the homescape, stared at by uncomprehending strangers, while forever putting the pop music of the time to shame.Comment
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Oh my goodness.....in the old days we would just have assumed the great man had already gone a la ferney's comment and enjoyed the music. But, hey, the modern media of death, illness, sex, nuclear oblivion and other trivialities - small wonder that people are still getting their knickers in a twist over a political arrangement and fondlly reminiscing about the extreme worries vis a vis the Cuban Missile Crisis. N Korea? Pah - but then the differences are (a) it will actually happen and (b) we are old so who cares? Let's Dance With Domino!Originally posted by Pianorak View Post
RIP Fats Domino.
(And, yes, I do have his 3 CD Imperial Collection - so very many thanks)
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Rock ‘n Roll was never my thing but whatever I was listening, his name and music would usually pop up along the way, like this.
RIP.
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Back about 30 years ago, when he was still a cheeky chappy, Jools Holland made a rather excellent doc about New Orleans during which he met and played with the great man.
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Timescales are funny things.
Fats was at the height of his fame, I suppose, less than 20 years before I started listening to pop music. You could always feel the lines back, and enjoy the music , but musicians like him seemed really rather remote from our time and place,and yet it really wasn't so far in the past.
So much to enjoy, a great deal left for us to remember him by.
RIP
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Great man. Big influence on Ska and R&B
One of my favourite records...
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Yes I remember Fats Domino bursting on the scene. When I heard his simple piano style I said 'I can do that'. I couldn't. I tried again today. Farewell Fats, but not forgotten.Comment
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Same here. He and Chuck Berry within a few weeks of each otherOriginally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
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It is quite odd listening to tributes to Fats Domino referring to him as some founding father of Rock n' Roll even though he always described his music and Rhythm and Blues. Domino is a musician whose music is immediately appealing but the repeated 12/8 feel of much of his music means that it doesn't have much variety. The strangest thing about his records are that jazz musicians would have considered them to have been "pop" music at the time whereas, with the passage of the years, his music has shown itself to be more akin to jazz than rock. If you like, it is the kind of pop music that appeals to jazz fans.
New Orleans is always cited as the cradle of jazz yet the likes of Domino, Dr John, George Porter and Allan Toussaint have all run with these rhythms over successive generations to ensure that music from that city has a feel that is readily identifiable. It is curious that for a city that came lay claim for having the first regional identity in popular music it can also hold it's head up and say that this legacy has endured far longer than on any other community. It seems capable of reinventing itself whereas the influence of other regional centres such as Kansas City remains historic as opposed to being alive.Comment
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I think one of the problems for popular artists of that period is that you come up with a winning formula and then get locked into it. Revolt into Style as George Melly said. Fat's early records (up to say 1956/7) had variety, energy and edge, albeit within the idiom. There is some lovely stuff there. As the years went by it became recycled and perhaps banal, although there were some good spots and the 60s live performances were joyous. But for what he did, and he sold a hell of a lot of records with integrity, all praise. Those piano intros and tenor solos still triger very fond memories for me. The solo on Dreamboat is textbook R&B.Originally posted by Ian Thumwood View Post
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