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• W1970139784 abstract "reviews 87 readers interested in Valentino are advised to turn to John Dos Passos' biographical sketch, Adagio Dancer, in TL· Big Money, written forty years ago, which despite its brevity is still the most penetrating analysis of the cultural meaning of Valentino's life. John Raeburn University of Iowa Maurice Waller and Anthony Calabrese, Fats Waller. New York: Schirmer; London: Collier Macmillan, 1977. 235 pp. $12.95. Adoring fans have apotheosized two consummate jazz musicians recently . One, tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon, has met with wide acclaim on his return to this country after several years abroad. The other has been dead for thirty-five years, and his renewed acclaim is, if anything, even greater than Gordon's. Ain't Misbehavin', a splashy, high-spirited, and successful Broadway review, captures his spirit, as does Twyla Tharp's idiosyncratic, slightly goofy dance interpretation of his music. His recordings have been reissued by RCA, and his life and music have inspired two recent books. One is Joel Vance's Fats Waller: His Life and Times (1977), and the other is by one of Waller's three sons (with the assistance of Anthony Calabrese). Fats Waller is much with us, and for good reason. Two of Waller's most obvious characteristics account for his renewed popularity; they are distinct entities, but casual observers often think of them as one. Waller was first and foremost a master musician. He studied with the great Harlem pianists James P. Johnson and Willie The Lion Smith, and he learned well the lessons they taught. He played two-handed piano in a style immediately identifiable as much for its exuberance as for its technical audacity. He was a composer of note, and several of his creations will endure as long as people demand good melodies in popular music: Ain't Misbehavin ', Honeysuckle Rose, and Jitterbug Waltz. Waller's popular reception has been based more on his personality than on his musicianship . An effervescent man with an infectious sense of humor, the Waller most admired was he who injected asides, incorrect words, and other irreverencies into his material, the inherent quality of which often encouraged that kind of treatment. He played the clown, people responded, and that encouraged more foolishness. But mere frivolity pales quickly. Waller's comments and double entendres often were means to serious ends, and even when his tongue became embedded firmly in his cheek, his musicianship never diminished. He was a 88 biography Vol. 1, No. 4 masterful musician and a wonderful entertainer. Dizzy Gillespie is one of the last ofthat breed. Maurice Waller treats these and other aspects of his engaging father's career in a loving but balanced manner. He knows Fats's strengths and weaknesses. He was an absent yet doting father; a man with great capacity for food, drink, and women; a composer of note who sold his creations for practically nothing and, according to the author, had such tunes as On the Sunny Side of the Street and I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby stolen by Jimmy McHugh . He was generous with friends, but his refusal to pay alimony to his first wife caused him grief and eventually led to his imprisonment. He had a fat man's jolly disposition, yet he could be stern when necessary . He had innumerable affairs during both of his marriages (to the long-suffering Edith and the understanding Anita, the woman he truly loved); that with his protege Una Mae Carlisle was especially tumultuous. Waller was a big man with big appetites that he indulged fully. Waller had many famous friends whose names recur throughout this book: Ellington, Basie, Gershwin, Whiteman, Berlin, Razaf, Eubie Blake, Al Capone, and Arnold Rothstein. Places important to Waller's career lend a romantic aura to this story of his life: the Apollo Theatre, the Kentucky Club, the Yacht Club, Connie's Inn, and Carnegie Hall. Because of these inclusions, a leitmotif of New York and Chicago night life—music, thugs, women, and booze—helps this biography escape the flatness one might expect from it. No book on Waller can fail; the nature of the subject guarantees a certain degree of success. While this volume is vastly..." @default.
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