This Chess is a father-figure crook, treating musicians like "family," paying them off in fancy automobiles and never letting them look at his books. Oscar winner Adrien Brody plays Leonard Chess, the striving immigrant who traded in his junk business for a juke joint and then burned that down to finance the birth of Chess Records. But it's a dry and somewhat whitewashed look at a place where musicians made money and history, mostly the latter. It's edgy enough to have bluesmen and women talk the way bluesmen talk and indulge in their indulgences. She brings in integration, radio payola scandals and the Chess influence on those who came later (the Rolling Stones). This film by veteran TV director Darnell Martin ("Their Eyes Were Watching God") hits many of the highs and lows of this storied history. It's the label that summoned delta blues to Chicago and electrified it, where Muddy Waters growled and Howlin' Wolf howled, where Chuck Berry invented rock guitar and where Etta James sang the greatest make-out music ever recorded.
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It tries to capture nothing less than the moment when white culture embraced black music and rock 'n' roll was born.īut even if the iPod Nation craves this history, the movie over-reaches in trying to capture all that Chess Records witnessed.
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Read the full review on page 18.īrilliantly cast and ambitious to beat the band, "Cadillac Records" is a little movie that aims big.
The "Cadillac Records" soundtrack falls somewhere between a dawn-of-rock 'n' roll tribute album and a new Beyoncé album. R for pervasive language and some sexuality. Produced by Beyoncé Knowles, Andrew Lack and Sofia Sondervan. Starring Jeffrey Wright, Adrien Brody, Beyoncé Knowles, Mos Def, Eric Bogosian and Cedric the Entertainer.Ī Sony Pictures film written and directed by Darnell Martin.
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