Louis Prima – The Call Of The Wildest (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:53 minutes | 441 MB | Genre: Vocal Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Finest Recordings
Louis Leo Prima (December 7, 1910 – August 24, 1978) was an American trumpeter, singer, entertainer, and bandleader. 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 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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Louis Prima – Musical Moments To Remember (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 56:48 minutes | 657 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jube Legends
A tireless showman and an underrated musical talent, Louis Prima swung his way to icon status thanks to an irresistible, infectious sound whose appeal translated across generations. Nominally a swing artist, Prima’s distinctive sound also encompassed New Orleans-style jazz, boogie-woogie, jump blues, R&B, early rock & roll, and even the occasional Italian tarantella. This complilation from Jube Legends label subtitled as “Louis Prima in Studio and on Stage”.
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Louis Prima – Jump, Jive & Wail!! (1952-1959) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:17 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
Bandleader, singer and trumpeter Louis Prima, who’d enjoyed huge successes in the 1930s and ’40s, mounted a major comeback in the 1950s, after teaming up with Keely Smith and Sam Butera & The Witnesses. This collection, which is one of a closely-linked trilogy, presents the very best of Prima’s solo recordings for Columbia, Jubilee and Capitol between 1952-59, with the emphasis very much on his 1956-59 Capitol output. It features pre-Capitol collectors’ items like “The Bigger The Figure”, “Luigi” and “Man, Dig That Crazy Chick”, although twenty-one of the twenty-five side are from his Capitol output. These include singles like “Buona Sera” (a UK hit), “5 Months, 2 Weeks, 2 Days” and “Banana Split For My Baby”, alongside tracks from the hit albums ‘The Wildest’, ‘The Call Of The Wildest’, ‘The Wildest Show At Tahoe’. ‘Las Vegas Prima Style’, ‘Hey Boy! Hey Girl!’ and ‘Strictly Prima’. The punters who buy this one, will soon realise that they HAVE to buy the other two releases in this series!
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