Tracks: 1. Main Title (Instrumental) 2. On Broadway 3. Michelle (Instrumental) 4. Take Off With Us 5. Vivaldi Concert In G (Instrumental) 6. Ponte Vecchio (Instrumental) 7. Everythings Old Is New Again 8. South Mt Sinai Parade 9. After You've Gone 10. There'll Be Some Changes Made 11. Who's Sorry Now 12. Some Of These Days 13. Going Home Now (Instrumental) 14. Bye Bye Love
Tracks: 1. Main Title (Instrumental) - Ralph Burns 2. On Broadway - George Benson 3. Michelle (Instrumental) - Ralph Burns 4. Take Off With Us - Sandahl Bergman & Chorus 5. Vivaldi Concert In G (Instrumental) - Ralph Burns 6. Ponte Vecchio (Instrumental) - Ralph Burns 7. Everything Old Is New Again - Peter Allen 8. South Mt Sinai Parade (Instrumental) - Ralph Burns 9. After You've Gone - Leland Palmer 10. There'll Be Some Changes Made - Ann Reinking 11. Who's Sorry Now - Chorus 12. Some Of These Days - Erzsebet Foldi 13. Going Home Now (Instrumental) - Ralph Burns 14. Bye Bye Love - Ben Vereen & Roy Scheider
Posted 2007-08-05 20:52:47: Amazon.com Editoral Review: Choreographer-turned-director Bob Fosse (Cabaret, Lenny) turns the camera on himself in this nervy, sometimes unnerving 1979 feature, a nakedly autobiographical piece that veers from gritty drama to razzle-dazzle musical, allegory to satire. It's an indication of his bravura, and possibly his self-absorption, that Fosse (who also cowrote the script) literally opens alter ego Joe Gideon's heart in a key scene--an unflinching glimpse of cardiac surgery, shot during an actual open-heart procedure.
Roy Scheider makes a brave and largely successful leap out of his usual romantic lead roles to step into Gideon's dancing pumps, and supplies a plausible sketch of an extravagant, self-destructive, self-loathing creative dynamo, while Jessica Lange serves as a largely allegorical Muse, one of the various women that the philandering Gideon pursues (and usually abandons). Gideon's other romantic partners include Fosse's own protégé (and a major keeper of his choreographic style since his death), Ann Reinking, whose leggy grace is seductive both "onstage" and off.
Fosse/Gideon's collision course with mortality, as well as his priapic obsession with the opposite sex, may offer clues into the libidinal core of the choreographer's dynamic, sexualized style of dance, but musical aficionados will be forgiven for fast-forwarding to cut out the self-analysis and focus on the music, period. At its best--as in the knockout opening, scored to George Benson's strutting version of "On Broadway," which fuses music, dance, and dazzling camera work into a paean to Fosse's hoofer nation--All That Jazz offers a sequence of classic Fosse numbers, hard-edged, caustic, and joyously physical. --Sam Sutherland > 4 Comments
