Fat Babies, The / 18th & Racine
Album: 18th & Racine   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Fat Babies, The   Added:Apr 2014
Label:Delmark Records  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2014-04-18 Pull Date: 2014-06-20 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Jun 15 Jun 1 May 18 May 11 May 4 Apr 27 Apr 20
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Recent Airplay
1. Aug 31, 2017: No Cover, No Minimum
I'll Fly To Hawaii
4. Dec 05, 2014: Rebop
The Stampede
2. Dec 01, 2016: No Cover, No Minimum
I Can't Dance (I Got Ants In My Pants)
5. Jul 04, 2014: Rebop
18th & Racine, I Can't Dance (I Got Ants In My Pants), Nobody's Sweetheart Now
3. Jan 06, 2015: Jump, Jive, & Jazz
Stardust
6. Jun 13, 2014: The Songsmith Show
I'll Fly To Hawaii

Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2014-04-17
THE FAT BABIES: 18th & Racine
Delmark, 2013

TRADITIONAL JAZZ – 1920s/30s style Chicago jazz (don’t confuse it with New Orleans and please don’t call it Dixieland!) played straight-up. The septet blows more “hot” than “sweet,” but this is a pre-swing idiom, so it has a more formal and stiff sound than a swing band: think early Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Eddie Condon. But it’s lots of fun. Very well played stuff from a band that gigs regularly in Chicago.

All good! Fo’s Picks: 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 14, 15

1. 3:12 – relaxed, upbeat cakewalk
2. 3:35 – drag, vocal, fine trumpet
3. 4:33 – Fletcher Henderson strut
4. 2:48 – a fat little stroll, wails
5. 4:20 – proud strutting standard
6. 3:28 – hotcha call & response voc
7. 4:55 – dusky pulse, like Ellington
8. 2:40 – uptempo stomp, steady
9. 2:44 – a jaunty stroll on the town
10. 2:23 – upbeat flapper bounce
11. 3:37 – classic sway, nicely done
12. 2:46 – tick-tock uptempo stomp
13. 3:22 – relaxed old-time saunter
14. 3:13 – great oddball romp
15. 3:18 – lazybones stride piano

[ Fo ] - 17 April 2014

Track Listing
1. Liza   8. King Kong Stomp
2. Till Times Get Better   9. El Rado Scuffle
3. The Stampede   10. Oh Baby
4. Mable's Dream   11. Stardust
5. Nobody's Sweetheart Now   12. I'll Fly To Hawaii
6. I Can't Dance (I Got Ants In My Pants)   13. Oh Me! Oh My!
7. 18th & Racine   14. The Chant
  15. Blueberry Rhyme