A photograph of ‘Fats’ Waller at a piano, most likely in the 1940s. Fats Waller was an influential jazz pianist and singer whose innovative works were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame posthumously, in 1984 and 1999. Waller died in 1943 at the age of 39.

From the Leonard Feather Collection, part of the International Jazz Collection at the University of Idaho. Leonard Feather was a well known jazz journalist who worked with such greats as Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, and Duke Ellington.