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Fats Waller was born in Harlem at a time when the area was experiencing a cultural renaissance, so this is the story of an era as well as the biography of one of its greatest musicians.
Waller wrote hundreds of songs of which more than a half dozen are now jazz standards, including, “Honeysuckle Rose,” “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” and “I’ve Got A Feeling I’m Falling.” Ain’t Misbehavin’ recounts Waller’s colorful life including his associations with James P. Johnson, Andy Razaf, Willie “The Lion” Smith, Mary Lou Williams, Count Basie, Spencer Williams, and more. There is little in the way of musical analysis but included at the end is a sixteen-page discography. There is no table of contents or index.
W. T. “Ed” Kirkeby was the friend and manager of Fats Waller during the last eight years of Waller’s life.
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The JazzStandards.com bookstore provides you with
a catalog of 200 books associated with the jazz standards.
Organized by category, each entry has an editorial comment to aid
you in your research and guide you in your recreational reading.
The books used to research and develop JazzStandards.com are
listed at the right and the listing may be considered the site bibliography.
The primary focus of these books is not always the jazz standards
per se, so each entry is annotated indicating the book's relevance
to the subject. If there is a book you feel we have overlooked,
please let us know the title and how it supports the research or
recreational study of the jazz standards.
comments@jazzStandards.com
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