Louis Prima - Jump, Jive & Wail The Very Best of Louis Prima (1952-1959) (2021) [gnodde]



Louis Leo Prima (December 7, 1910 – August 24, 1978) was an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and trumpeter. While rooted in New Orleans jazz, swing music, and jump blues, Prima touched on various genres throughout his career: he formed a seven-piece New Orleans-style jazz band in the late 1920s, fronted a swing combo in the 1930s and a big band group in the 1940s, helped to popularize jump blues in the late 1940s and early to mid 1950s, and performed frequently as a Vegas lounge act beginning in the 1950s.

From the 1940s through the 1960s, his music further encompassed early R&B and rock 'n' roll, boogie-woogie, and Italian folk music, such as the tarantella. Prima made prominent use of Italian music and language in his songs, blending elements of his Italian and Sicilian identity with jazz and swing music. At a time when ethnic musicians were often discouraged from openly stressing their ethnicity, Prima's conspicuous embrace of his Sicilian ethnicity opened the doors for other Italian-American and ethnic American musicians to display their ethnic roots.

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Tracks:
01 - The bigger the figure
02 - One mint julep
03 - Luigi
04 - Man dig that crazy chick
05 - 5 months, 2 weeks, 2 days
06 - Banana split for my baby
07 - Just a gigolo / i ain't got nobody
08 - Oh marie
09 - Jump, jive an' wail
10 - Whistle stop
11 - Be mine (little baby)
12 - The pump song
13 - Pennies from heaven
14 - Closest to the bone
15 - Buona sera
16 - Beep! beep!
17 - Angelina / zooma zooma
18 - Robin hood / oh babe
19 - Them there eyes / honeysuckle rose
20 - Tiger rag / just because
21 - Too marvelous for words
22 - Lazy river
23 - Sing, sing, sing
24 - Felicia no capicia
25 - Bourbon street blues

All in MP3 @ 320kbps