Women Who Swing / Var - Women Who Swing / Various

This album is a tribute to the women who are defining Chicago's current jazz scene. You will hear a diversity of styles ranging from the big band sound of Geraldine De'Haas to the modern cool of Patricia Barber. Grazyna Auguscik and Jackie Allen will enchant you with their harmonic sculpting and colorful vocals while Audrey Morris, Joanie Pallatto and Hinda Hoffman light up the room with their delicate torch singing. Spider Saloff and Julie Wood provide a lesson in swing, the incomparable Judy Roberts showes who's the boss of bop, and Kelly Brand, Joan Hickey and Marlene Rosenberg tkae you from the traditional to beyond!

1) Broadway
2) Love Walked in
3) Two for the Road
4) Tell It Like It Is
5) Lullaby for My Mother
6) Nardis
7) Scrapple from the Apple
8) Waltz for Debby
9) Deserted Caravan
10) Dr. Sid
11) My Ship
12) Afterthoughts
13) Urban Kaos