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...answer is simple: "I just listen. And relax." As for what's next, nobody's sure. A documentary filmmaker has been following him around for months, and a movie studio has floated the idea of making a biopic. But as Paravicini starts in on Fats Waller's Ain't Misbehavin', he's oblivious to anything beyond the joy of this moment. Rocking back and forth, a sideways smile on his face, he throws in a cascading scale here, a sneaky chord there, taking the tune as far out as he can before pulling it back. Maybe it's his drive...
...comfortable shoes. But once a month she gets up on the bandstand of the Gardenia restaurant in Hollywood and sings a very ungrandmotherly set of songs. The effect is equal parts surprise, delight and blushes. At a recent gig, she segued from Just a Little Lovin' to Ain't Misbehavin'. Then, before launching into I Want a Two-Fisted, Double-Jointed, Rough and Ready Man, she confided to the audience, "The man being sought here is only needed in one room in the house--the bedroom...
...virtuosity and singing were never more supple or expressive. Along with the nine Fats Waller gems from the original LP, the CD offers four alternate takes from that session and seven tracks of Armstrong's older Waller recordings. Satch dazzles with familiar songs like Honeysuckle Rose and Ain't Misbehavin', but his playing and singing of the lesser-known lament Blue Turning Grey Over You are staggering and unforgettable...
Reinking also co-directed and co-choreographed Fosse, although she had plenty of help. Richard Maltby Jr., who created Ain't Misbehavin', was largely responsible for shaping the production and is billed as its director, while Chet Walker "re-created" the choreography. All three share credit for having "conceived" the show, which originated five years ago in a series of classes on Fosse's dance style taught by Walker and Gwen Verdon, Fosse's ex-wife and the original star of many of his most successful shows (Sweet Charity, Chicago). Exactly who did exactly what will surely be the subject...
Groups such as the Harvard Noteables performed for the multitudes of chess players, tourists, coffee-drinkers and those who would quietly sing along to songs like "Ain't Misbehavin...