Dick Hyman, Various Artists - Soundtracks - 1999 - Sweet and Lowdown: Music from the Motion Picture
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Artist: Dick Hyman, Various Artists - Soundtracks - 1999Performer: Howard Alden
Edition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1999-11-23
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- I'll See You in My Dreams - Kahn, Gus
- Caravan - Ellington, Duke
- Sweet Georgia Brown - Bernie, Ben
- Unfaithful Woman - Hyman, Dick
- Viper Mad - Bechet, Sidney
- Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) - Koehler, Ted
- Old Fashioned Love - Johnson, James [01]
- Limehouse Blues/Mystery Pacific - Grappelli, Stephane
- Just a Gigolo - Casucci, Leonello
- 3:00 A.M. Blues - Hyman, Dick
- All of Me/The Peanut Vendor - Gilbert, L. Wolfe
- It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - Mills, Irving
- Shine - Mack, Cecil
- I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles - Brockman, James
- There'll Be Some Changes Made - Higgins, Billy [2]
Music reviews of Sweet and Lowdown: Music from the Motion Picture
Music Review: Woody does it again
Rating: 4 Stars
Woody Allen has a perchance for capturing the ridiculous as normality, none more than in Sweet and lowdown. Can you image a world class swing guitarist whose greatest pleasures are shooting rats at the local tip and train watching. He portrays himself as the greatest swing guitarist in the world, except for this guy in Paris, unfortunately every time he comes in contact with this guy, (Django Rheinhardt}, he faints. He finds a love interest in a mute girl, who is perfectly fitted to be the love of his life and eventually blows it. there are some wonderful scenes as people tell thier versions of particular periods of his life, mostly conficting. In the end basically every-one gets what they deserve, but the best part of this film is its sound track. Any-one who loves swing will warm to this movie and like me will probably buy the sound track.
Description of Sweet and Lowdown: Music from the Motion Picture
Although Woody Allen has been using jazz from the '20s and '30s on his soundtracks since Sleeper, Sweet and Lowdown is his first movie featuring the musicians of the period. The story is about Emmett Ray, who is a brilliant guitarist but is always being unfavorably compared to Django Reinhardt. Allen hired the guitarist Howard Alden and the Dick Hyman Group to play the music of Ray and his band, and they have done an excellent job of recreating the small band swing of the '30s. Alden has assimilated the music of such guitarists as Eddie Lang, Karl Kress, and Django to create a guitar style that is unique yet also sounds thoroughly authentic. He is the Zelig of guitar players. This music has all of the excitement of '30s jazz with none of the stodginess that sometimes plagues other jazz revivalists. --Michael SimmonsGeneral CDs
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