Shout Sister Shout

Boswell Sisters - Shout Sister Shout

Shout Sister Shout
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Artist: Boswell Sisters
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-04-08
Music Label: Asv Living Era

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Free Music Review: THE BOSWELLS AT THEIR HOTTEST
Hit: 5 Stars

This is a blazing collection of the one-of-a-kind Boswell Sisters at their most hot. By hot, of course I mean up-tempo and jazz-based, and that's the focus here. It's a fine cd, among a number of good ones featuring the inimitable Boswell Sisters.

Now, I hate to come right out and say it, but this needs addressing; The Andrews Sisters were a popular group that sang chirpy pop fluff with often burdensome studio big-band backings. Surrounded by the greatest songs of the century, they continuously recorded throwaway compositions. They were not instrumentalists, arrangers, or particularly great singers in the classic sense. And again, their music falls squarely under the pop umbrella. There's nothing wrong with any of that, of course (Bing Crosby recorded many sub-par songs with clunky orchestras, and is one of my favorite singers), but it makes comparison with their admitted idols, The Boswell Sisters, somewhat futile.

On the other hand, The Boswell Sisters were radical. They grew up in New Orleans surrounded by a thick gumbo of music and culture. They studied classical music and were masterful musicians even as very small children. They performed with the New Orleans Philharmonic! When the sisters got more into jazz, they tore its very DNA to shreds and reassembled it, radically remaking compositions (arranging themselves) to include absolutely WILD shifts in tempo, altered (or completely new) chordal structures, and mind-boggling vocal artistry which I lack the skill to properly describe. When the Boswell Sisters began to record, they worked with the cream of hot jazz musicians, in radical small-bands with wild, exciting soloing from musicians like Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Jimmy & Tommy Dorsey, Bunny Berigan, and so on. Even when the Boswell Sisters were forgotten, jazz collectors sought out their records for the hot solos, then were shocked at the artistry of the Boswells, and the wildly experimental and creative arrangements and re-workings of known compositions. Basically the recordings with the Boswell Sisters turned out not to be some great solos between throwaway pop verses, but rather music AT LEAST as hot and imaginative as the purely instrumental records those same musicians had been recording alone!

So if you want something more pop and middle-of-the-road, then the Andrews will be great for you. They were an extremely pleasant pop group that kept morale up during WW2, and they were great fun on a number of Bing Crosby sides. The Andrews Sisters are an undeniable part of the wholesome homey heartland of the USA that got us through some of the most horrible times in human history. There is no denying that Patty, et al, were inexorably entwined with the very fabric of the national soul during that time.

That said, if you are looking for something to light your soul and your mind on fire, something wild and beautiful, full of mischievous glee (and purposeful innovation), lightning fast scat singing (often unison!) and untamed hot jazz solos, then the Boswells are right for you.

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