Ain't Misbehavin'
Context
A song written in 1929 for the Broadway revue Connie's Hot Chocolates: music by Fats Waller and Harry Brooks, lyrics by Andy Razaf. Louis Armstrong, to whom Waller had taught it, played it as a trumpet solo in the revue the same year. Waller's version for the film Stormy Weather (1943) received a Grammy Hall of Fame award in 1984 and was selected by the Library of Congress in 2004.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Stride (Harlem piano), Swing, big bands. Among the origins and influences of Stride: Ragtime.