Ain't Misbehavin': The Story of Fats Waller
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.31 (909 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0306706830 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The life-of-the-party who improvised at the piano for stag films, Fats would periodically retreat to the organ loft to play Bach and spirituals. Reviewing Fats' brief but stellar career, Kirkeby reveals a life that was filled with paradoxes and a man who moved with ease from a middle-class church-going home to New York's speakeasy subculture. 'Ed' Kirkeby. From the Back Cover This informal narrative of Waller's life and music-a moving memoir of a musical genius and an outstanding human being-was written by Fats' personal manager, Wallace T.
He then contributes his own memoir of an 8-year friendship with Fats, concluding with a discography. Johnson, Willie "the Lion" Smith, Duke Ellington and other memorable figures in the history of jazz and ragtime; and the successful forays into films and musicals. His death in 1943 marked the end of the era called "swing".. He arrived on the scene just as jazz was flowering nation-wide, and he reaped a harvest of fame and fortune through his piano rolls, his recordings, and his European tours. Thomas "Fats" Waller (1904-1943) belong
Wallace T. Ed” Kirkeby was Fats Waller’s longtime personal manager.
PH-50-NC said I so-so biography that has been surpassed by more recent Waller bios. This was, I believe, the first biography of Waller (it appeared in the mid-1960s), and it is co-written by Fats' late-career manager (Ed Kirkeby), who had a first-hand perspective on the last 8 so years of Waller's life and obviously spent many hours with Waller himself. It tells's Waller's story reasonably well, S. Frank C. Taglieri said One of the best. Fats Waller was a truly great pianist and organist. He was responsible for teaching Count Basie the Piano and the organ. But early in Fats' life, he had the good fortune to study with the incomparable James P. Johnson, where he started to perfect his style. Great Book, as most of all of amazon books are. Frank