Now That's Chicago : Various Artists

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Tracklist:

1    The Hot Air-Men <> Red Hot Chicago
2    Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon & His Hot Shots <> Fifteen Cents
3    Henderson's Roseland Orchestra <> Raisin' The Roof
4    California Ramblers <> She Knows Her Onions
5    Missouri Jazz Band <> Nobody's Sweetheart
6    Joe Turner &His Memphis Men <> Freeze And Melt
7    Rube Bloom & His Bayou Boys <> The Man From The South
8    Frank Melrose <> Piano Breakdown
9    Cliff Edwards (Ukelele Ike) <> That's My Weakness Now
10    Lee Morse <> He's Still My Baby
11    Sophie Tucker <> Cause I Feel Lowdown
12    Ethel Waters <> No Man's Mama
13    Jack Teagarden & His Orchestra <> I Got The Ritz From The One I Love
14    The Goofus Five & Their Orchestra <> Mama's Grown Young
15    Annette Hanshaw <> I Got 'It" But It Don't Do Me No Good
16    Ruth Etting <> Cigarettes, Cigars
17    Clarence Williams & His Orchestra <> Papa De Da Da
18    Sarah Martin <> Take Your Black Bottom Outside
19    Don Redman & His Orchestra <> Two-Time Man
20    Clarence Williams' Jug Band <> Chizzlin' Sam
21    Cab Calloway & His Orchestra <> Farewell Blues

The film version of Chicago became a hit in 2002 and won the Academy Award for Best Picture one year later. Producer Michael Brooks conceived a compilation that would unite Chicago-based hot jazz from the late '20s and early '30s and the classic period of American musicals during the '30s and '40s. The result is Now That's Chicago!, a triumphant, successful collection of material by some of the finest performers of the era, and a set capable of attracting both trend-following fans and serious jazz buffs alike. Brooks' collection is splendid throughout, mixing and matching rare, outré performances from the best of the early swing bands (Fletcher Henderson, Clarence Williams, Duke Ellington, Don Redman, Cab Calloway) with songs from an array of vaudeville, pop, and blues vocalists (Sophie Tucker, Ethel Waters, Cliff Edwards, Annette Hanshaw, Ruth Etting, Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon). Brooks' compilation abilities are shown at their best here. He selects great performances from excellent artists of material that lean toward the sensationalist. Especially good combinations of each are the It Girl's post-Depression lament, "I Got 'It' But It Don't Do Me No Good," by the criminally underrated Hanshaw; the studio group Hot-Air Men's featuring Phil Napoleon effervescent swing through "Red Hot Chicago"; the proto-feminist anthem "No Man's Mama" by Ethel Waters and the bubbly "That's My Weakness Now" by the lush yet cheery Edwards. Even the dated songs are dated in all the right ways, including "She Knows Her Onions" by the California Ramblers and "Fifteen Cents" by Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon. (web review)

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