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3 days ago · Fats Waller, known as the master of the stride piano, was once described by Oscar Levant as “the Black Vladimir Horowitz.” But as you will realize while watching Drury Lane Theatre’s altogether terrific revival of “Ain’t Misbehavin’: The Fats Waller Musical Show” — a revue conceived by Richard Maltby Jr. and Murray Horwitz that ...
3 days ago · Some jukebox shows include almost all of a songwriter’s canon. Not so “Ain’t Misbehavin,'” given that Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller wrote (or co-wrote) more than 400 songs, even as he ...
5 days ago · “Ain’t Misbehavin'” was composed in 1929 by Fats Waller and Harry Brooks, with lyrics by Andy Razaf. The song was specifically written as the opening number for the all-black musical revue titled Connie’s Hot Chocolates , hosted by the legendary Harlem nightclub Connie’s Inn.
5 days ago · Despite it being one of his best known compositions, Fats Waller was not particularly impressed by his 1929 song “Honeysuckle Rose.”. In his book The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire, Ted Gioia writes that Waller “had seen this tune as a negligible item, a soft-shoe piece for Load of Coal, a 1929 revue at Harlem’s Connie’s ...
3 days ago · The first Chicago-area production of the Fats Waller revue “Ain’t Misbehavin’” I saw was in 2008 at the Goodman Theatre, co-starring the inimitable E. Faye Butler. By then, Butler had ...
3 days ago · When Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller died at 39 of pneumonia on December 15, 1943, while riding a train from LA to Chicago, he left behind a legacy as a popular singer, composer, and performing ...
1 day ago · Luca Filastro, Guillaume Nouaux, Lars Frank and Jon-Erik Kellso gave a swinging concert at the Sancy Snow Jazz Festival. One of the festival highlights for m...
