Stage “Jazz,” said Bix Beiderbecke, “is musical humor”: a definition seemingly rejected by the oh-so-earnest jazzmen of bop and other postwar schools. But it was never forgotten by Bix’s contemporary Thomas “Fats” Waller, and is well reflected in Live Arts’ energetic revival of Ain’t Misbehavin’, the Tony Award-winning revue devoted to Fats’ music. Of course, […]