Jason Moran, Meshell Ndegeocello find their own way to honor Fats Waller

"Any time I get a commission, it's not really to do what the person is asking me to do," Jason Moran says, a grin glinting through the phone. "It's actually to think up something that they wouldn't have considered I would do, and then take that back to them. And, you know, tell them to pay for it."