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Louis Prima – Swing It! Label: Living Era Format: CD, Compilation Released: 2002 Genre: Jazz Style: Big Band Tracklist: 1Chinatown, My Chinatown 2Dinah 3Let's Have A Jubilee 4It's The Rhythm In Me 5Worry Blues 6Swing Me With Rhythm 7The Lady In Red 8Chasing Shadows 9Basin Street Blues 10In A Little Gypsy Tea Room 11Sing, Sing, Sing 12Pennies From Heaven 13Yes, There Ain't No Moonlight - So What? 14Rosalie 15Robin Hood 16Angelina 17Oh, Marie 18Bell-Bottom Trousers 19Brooklyn Boogie 20Felicia No Capicia 21St. Louis Blues 22A Sunday Kind Of Love 23All Right, Louie, Drop The Gun 24Charley, My Boy 25Oh, Babe
Louis Prima (né Louis Leo Prima; 7 December 1910 – 24 August 1978) was an Italian-American singer, actor, 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 1920's, fronted a swing combo in the 1930's and a big band group in the 1940's, helped to popularize jump blues in the late 1940's and early to mid 1950's, and performed as a Vegas lounge act in the late 1950's and 1960's. From the 1940's through the 1960's, his music further encompassed early R'n'B and rock'n'roll, boogie-woogie, and even Italian folk music, such as the tarantella. Prima made prominent use of Italian music and language in his songs, blending elements of his Italian 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 Italian ethnicity opened the doors for other Italian-American and "ethnic" American musicians to display their ethnic roots.
