Fats Waller apparently had it written into his contract that he could not be forced to play boogie-woogie

But not everyone was a fan. Fats Waller apparently had it written into his contract that he could not be forced to play boogie-woogie. He considered it cheap and unmusical, all repetition and lacking in harmonics.

B. Stanley, Let's do it: the birth of pop (2022), 331