Louis Prima(English, Paperback, Boulard Garry)

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Louis Prima(English, Paperback, Boulard Garry) is written by Boulard Garry and published by University of Illinois Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0252070909 (ISBN 10) and 9780252070907 (ISBN 13).

Louis Prima infused the grit and grace of Dixieland jazz with swing and big band sounds, the first whiffs of rock 'n' roll, and a vaudevillian stage presence. Garry Boulard pens the biography of the underrated jazz musician, Las Vegas mainstay, and popular entertainer. A native of New Orleans, Prima was a Guy Lombardo protege known as "The Italian Satchmo" who became the country's new jazz sensation at New York's Famous Door in the 1930s. He went on to success as a big band leader before virtually creating the lounge act as a Las Vegas nightclub staple. Employing and later marrying singer Keely Smith, Prima rode high with a series of hit songs and smash albums in the Fifties. But Boulard also looks past the over-the-top stage antics to restore Prima's legacy as an overlooked jazz musician and vocalist, and as a bandleader with an uncanny ability to fuse disparate styles into music that kept audiences cheering and dancing for decades.