Neighborhood
Wikipedia ties Fats Waller to St. Albans, Queens. A tie, not always an origin
On the map at Sayres Avenue at 174th Street
Sayres Avenue at 174th Street, Queens: Reportedly the first African American to live in Addisleigh Park. He lived in a house at this corner, which had a built-in Hammond organ and a Steinway grand.
Source: forgotten-ny.com
Places
- Carnegie Hall
- DeWitt Clinton High School, School
Listen and read
Music spots
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Venue
Carnegie Hall
1891Opened in 1891. By the 1900s Sergei Rachmaninoff was among those staging or performing their own music here, the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini frequently recorded in the Main Hall, and Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Miles Davis are among the many jazz performers who have played here, per Wikipedia.
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