Sweethearts of Swing Music

I've been waiting for a CD featuring music by my favorite band The International Sweethearts of Rhythm and I can overlook the quality a little. The sound quality could be clearer and louder but its still listenable. Hopefully, a better CD can come out and more music of the Sweethearts added. I don't know if this CD was made in the USA or not but if it was it would have had better quality and in the liner notes there should had been more photos and info on the band and what became of them and when they died. I think anyone who wants to buy this CD, who isn't particular or picky, will enjoy it because the music is still enjoyable!

The music of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm is quite hard to find on CD, with only a handful of their tracks previously available scattered on various compilations. However, my joy over finally having a whole CD of their recordings turned to disappointment when I listened to it, to find that the tracks seem to have had some kind of heavy audio compression applied to them. Either someone processed the tracks trying to eliminate the noise and inadvertently eliminated half the music, or this CD is a questionable burn of second-hand low-quality MP3s. This is telephone-quality stuff. But i guess on the bright side, at least it's now available.

The recordings are of mid 40s Jubilee Radio Show Broadcasts, and include introductions by Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman

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.

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!