All That Jazz | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
File:All That Jazz cover.jpg | ||||
Studio album by Breathe | ||||
Released | April 1988 | |||
Recorded | June 1985-July 1987 | |||
Genre | Pop rock, Adult contemporary | |||
Length | 45:33 | |||
Label | A&M | |||
Producer | Bob Sargeant Chris Porter Paul Staveley O'Duffy |
|||
Breathe chronology | ||||
|
Professional ratings | |
---|---|
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
allmusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
All That Jazz is the title of the debut album by the British pop group Breathe, released in April 1988. The album peaked at #22 on the UK Albums Chart and at #34 on the US albums chart. It has been certified Silver in the UK by the BPI[2] and Gold in the US by the RIAA.[3]
The group's first single, "Don't Tell Me Lies", was released in 1986 and reached #77 on the UK Singles Chart. In 1987, the group began working on the rest of the tracks to be included on All That Jazz. Their biggest hit single was "Hands to Heaven", which reached #4 in the UK and #2 on the US pop chart.[4][5] Other singles released from the album include "How Can I Fall?" (#3 US pop and #1 US adult contemporary), a re-release of "Don't Tell Me Lies", "Jonah" (UK only) and "All This I Should Have Known" (US only).[6]
Contents |
An additional song, "In All Honesty", can be found in the European cassette version of the album.
![]() |
This 1980s pop album-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
All That Jazz may refer to:
All That Jazz may also refer to:
In music:
In TV and radio:
"All That Jazz" (alternatively "And All That Jazz") is a song from the 1975 musical Chicago. It has music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, and is the opening song of the musical. The title of the 1979 film, starring Roy Scheider as a character strongly resembling choreographer/stage and film director Bob Fosse, is derived from the song.
Bursting With Song explained the song's context within the 2002 film: "We see Velma Kelly stomp into that very same nightclub, where she performs "All That Jazz" as a solo headliner; we know she's killed her sister and boyfriend, and so do the cops, who arrest her after the number ends".
Opus, Book 3 by Rob Blythe notes the song uses the 7th chord to create a unique musical effect.
Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives explains the song encapulated the "importance of jazz in the constitution of pop culture". Describes it as a "cynical comment on the willing of humans...to act solely, simply, and unremorsefully in thr own interest", and deeming this unlawful conduct as part of "all that jazz" one needs to get by. BlueCoupe said in the song, "the ghost of Bob Fosse hangs about".
All That Jazz was the last studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald.
All That Jazz eschewed a tendency by Fitzgerald in past decades to record popular and commercial songs of the day, and instead concentrated on jazz standards from the Swing era, a period which some fifty years earlier had seen her begin her career in music.
Fitzgerald's performance on this album won her the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female, at the 33rd Grammy Awards. Fitzgerald also appeared on Quincy Jones Back on the Block, which won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year at the same ceremony.
For the 1992 Pablo CD Issue, PACD-2310-938-2