Ultra-Lounge: Wild, Cool & Swingin' - Artist Series Vol 6

Sam Butera | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 29, 1999)
• Original Release Date: June 29, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B00000JCGA
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,827 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #74 in Music > Jazz > New Orleans Jazz
  • #87 in Music > Pop > Easy Listening > Lounge

Track Listings

1. Dig That Crazy Chick

2. All the Way

3. Street Scene

4. Up Jumped a Rabbit

5. I Love Paris

6. Night Train

7. Bim Bam

8. Too Young

9. Love of My Life (O Sole Mio)

10. French Poodle

11. Hey There

12. Harlem Nocturne

13. Perdido

14. The Song from Moulin Rouge (Where Is Your Heart?)

15. Honey Love

16. On the Street Where You Live

17. Just Say I Love Her (Dicitencello Vuie)

18. La Vie en Rose

19. All Night Long

20. The Boulevard of Broken Dreams/Fever

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Like Butera but so-so on this particular compilation..., September 16, 2000

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Eddie Landsberg "My 10th year as a reviewer !... (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ultra-Lounge: Wild, Cool & Swingin' - Artist Series Vol 6 (Audio CD)

Oh come on, Sammy had more swinging tracks that this ! ! !

I like Sammy Butera a lot... I mean, it was his unit that made PRIMA swing and jump, and I really like a lot of the Novelty tracks he did with Prima and the way he could sing R & B, blow and really get the sound (in an era when white musicians sounded white, and black musicians sounded black, and that was it.) PRIMA and BUTERA were the WILDEST.

The thing is, this particular compilation didn't do a lot for me, even though there are a few good tracks (actually a GREAT one...All Night Long - - great vocals, some wailing tenor ! ! !) however I just can't feel that momentum throughough the compilation. I think if you're in the mood for that type of sound, you'd do much better off getting the stuff he did with Prima (actually Prima was standing over his shoulders on All Night Long), or an Earl Bostic compilation (the influence is aparent) or even a compilation of classic New Orleans R & B, or some classic Ray Charles.

I'm not sure... but the arrangements just seem to lack the WILD feel he had on stuff like "There Will Be No Next Time" beyond maybe "Dig That Crazy Sound" - - some great blowing, but rarely is his ferver met with is sidemen... this music might work at at a Big Band Dance at Lodge, but on my own CD player, it didn't get me jumping.

THUMBS up to Butera, but unless you have all his other stuff, I wouldn't grab this as a first choice.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mamma Mia!, September 7, 2000

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Ralph Quirino (Keswick, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ultra-Lounge: Wild, Cool & Swingin' - Artist Series Vol 6 (Audio CD)

Look no further than Sam Butera to hear how Louis Prima put the cool in songs like "Jump Jive An'Wail" and "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody". Butera's solo stuff is just as much fun thanks to great, wild saxophones, thumping drums and fun-time lyrics. This set covers that side of him and the slow, romantic, candle-light & wine ballads as well. If you've got Louis Prima's Capitol Collectors Series set, then you'll know how important Butera was. It's great to see this anthology: it serves up great music that's been absent from store shelves for decades! Enjoy!

3.0 out of 5 stars Something is missing here...., November 19, 2006

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Charles H. Levenson "chubbybuns" (new jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ultra-Lounge: Wild, Cool & Swingin' - Artist Series Vol 6 (Audio CD)

and that something would be Louis Prima,and Keeley Smith...Sure,Sam Butera was Prima's back-up man during the latter's prime,but listening to Butera alone is sort of like listening to the E-Street Band with out Bruce Springsteen...