Tracks: 1. It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) / Jumpin' at the Woodside
2. Bounce Me Brother (With a Solid Four)
3. Two and Four / Hit Me with a Hot Note and Watch Me Bounce
4. Rhythm / Throw That Girl Around / Show Me What You Got
5. Bli-Blip
6. Harlem Nocturne
7. Kitchen Mechanics' Night Out / Shout and Feel It
8. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
9. G.I. Jive
10. I'm Gonna Love You Tonight
11. I'll Be Seeing You
12. In the Mood / Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree
13. Swing, Brother, Swing
14. Caravan
15. Dancers in Love
16. Cry Me a River
17. Blues in the Night
18. Boogie Woogie Country
19. All of Me / I Won't Dance
20. Stompin' at the Savoy
21. Finale: Swing, Brother, Swing / Sing, Sing, Sing / It Don't Mean a Thing
Posted 2007-08-05 20:52:48: Amazon.com Editoral Review: The neo-swing movement hit Broadway in full force with the December 1999 opening of Swing!, a high-energy song and dance revue celebrating the music of the '30s and '40s. The show combines swing classics ("Stompin' at the Savoy") and wartime standards ("I'll Be Seeing You") with originals from its cast members. Cabaret chanteuse Ann Hampton Callaway, Everett Bradley, Laura Benanti, Michael Gruber, and ukulele-toting Casey MacGill (fronting the Gotham City Gates) perform solos and duets as well as quintets arranged by Manhattan Transfer's Yaron Gershovsky. Callaway (whose writing credits include the theme song for the TV series The Nanny and Barbara Streisand's "I've Dreamed of You" and "At the Same Time") has a voice that can burn on a ballad, blare like a trumpet, or scat up a storm. Of course it's a shame not to be able to see director-choreographer Lynne Taylor-Corbett's high-flying swing and Latin dancers, but this cast recording is an enjoyable romp in the spirit of Broadway's 1981 Ellington tribute, Sophisticated Ladies. --David Horiuchi
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