Contemporaries of Fats Waller

Fats Waller was part of a cultural revolution of music, literature, thinking, and art. Below are a just a few of the artists who made the Harlem Renaissance what it was:

Jazz Musicians: 

• Duke Ellington
 

• Jelly Roll Morton

• Willie “The Lion” Smith

• Ronald Hayes

• Billie Holiday
 

• Count Bassie

• Louis Armstrong
 

• Josephine Baker

• Ella Fitzgerald
 

• The King Cole Trio

• Dizzy Gilespie

• Thelonious Monk

 

Writers:

• Jean Toomer

• Jessie Fauset

• Claude McKay

• Zora Neale Hurston
 

• James Wledon Johnson

• Alain Locke

• Eric D. Walrond

• Langston Hughes
 

• Arna Bontemps

• Countee Cullen
 

• Rudolph Fisher

• Nella Larsen

• George Schuyler

• Wallace Thurman

• Carl Van Vechten

 

Intellectuals:

• W. E. B. Du Bois
 

• Marcus Garvey

 

Visual Artists:

• Jacob Lawrence

• Charles Alston

• Henry Bannam

• Augusta Savage

• Aaron Douglas

• Archibald Motley

• Lois Mailou Jones

• Palmer Hayden

• Romare Bearden

• Sargent Johnson

• Beauford Delaney

• William H. Johnson

• Norman Lewis

• Prentiss Taylor

• Carl Van Vechten