Aint Misbehavin'

By W.T. Kirkeby and Ed Kirkeby

Book Overview

This informal narrative of Waller's life and music was written by his personal manager. Kirkeby devotes the first 13 chapters to Fats' life and works: the collaboration, successful both artistically and financially, with lyricist Andy Razaf; the friendships with fellow performers James P. 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. He then contributes his own memoir of an 8-year friendship with Fats, concluding with a discography.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306706830
• ISBN13: 9780306706837
• Release Date: August 1975
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 5.8"