With the intention of using them as the Chorus in the classical Greek Theater, and the same as it happened with the music of Teddy Pendergrass in Alan Rudolph's movie Choose Me (1984), the director Richard LaGravenese has only selected a series of songs that work so much in an incidental way as argumentational in the film, not only supporting the plot but sharing it in a curious and deliberate way. Their generic tone oscillates between the ballad and the jazz, with special mention of the three that performs the, up to now, rapper singer Queen Latifah (that also participates as actress in the film), some classics with Etta James (At Last) and Dean Martin, as well as George Gershwin's celebrated They Can't Take That Away From Me that sings very acceptably the actor Danny DeVito. The English composer George Fenton collaborates with four original themes of a musical orientation markedly similar whose total duration oscillates around the 16 minutes, and a stupendous arrangement and performance at the piano of Duke Ellington's Low Key Lightly. E.V.

/ RCA Victor 09026 63363-2 / 56'

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