Search - Kit Mcclure :: Just the Thing (The Sweethearts Project Revisited)

Just The Thing is Just Fantastic Jazz!

Paul Aaron | New York, NY | 07/14/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

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I'm a big fan of Kit McClure's band of great women Jazz musicians - saw them perform at the JVC Jazz Festival in NYC this past June and bought a copy of this CD.



It's a fantastic recording with an amazing set of songs based on the music of the The International Sweethearts of Rhythm - an excellent, but now, little known big band of women Jazz musicians who performed back in the 1940's. It's the perfect sequel to the collection of The International Sweethearts of Rhythm songs that the Kit McClure Band recorded a couple of years ago. In this CD the KMB rearrangements of the songs are awesome contemporary Jazz infused with Funk and even Latin sounds. I really dig the songs, "Diggin Dirt", "I Never Get Tired" and "Jump Children".



Like Nat Hentoff of the Village Voice says, the music of Kit McClure and her all women Jazz band makes you want "to get up and dance." These musicians and their CD deserve more than 5 stars!"

Some very good jazz!

Pedro | 07/16/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This all-women band can swing. "Just The Thing" is a jazzy, funky, creative and original CD by the Kit McClure Band. It is a modern take on the International Sweethearts of Rhythm music, an all women band of the 1940's. Great solos by Kit McClure, Tanya Darby, Tia Fuller and Lakecia Benjamin. I think that any jazz lover will like this music."