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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 over 120 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.
suggestions@jazzStandards.com
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