Wingy Manone 1937-1938

Wingy Manone | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 9, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Allegro Corporation
• ASIN: B000001NUA
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,530,096 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. You're Precious to Me

2. It Must Be Religion

3. The Prisoner's Song

4. I Ain't Got Nobody

5. I've Got My Heart Set on You

6. Everything You Said Came True

7. Getting Some Fun Out of Life

8. Jazz Me Blues

9. Laugh Your Way Through Life

10. Annie Laurie

11. Loch Lomond

12. Down Stream

13. Where's the Waiter

14. My Mariuccia Takes a Steamboat

15. In the Land of Yamo Yamo

16. Heart of Mine

17. Let's Break the Good News

18. Martha

19. Mannone Blues

20. The Flat Foot Floogee

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Trumpet On The Wing" Still Soars, June 23, 2000

By 

Michael Plaskett (WDUQ Radio, Pittsburgh, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wingy Manone 1937-1938 (Audio CD)

Before there was Louis Prima, there was that OTHER clown prince of jazz, Joseph "Wingy" Manone.

Neither is remembered as a great trumpet technician, but both Manone and Prima, New Orleans natives of Italian heritage, played the horn well enough; both had monumentally ebullient personalities, and both had learned much from Louis Armstrong.

But Manone, compared with Prima, was more of a jazzman, as the selections on this CD indicate, and his sidemen, such as Leon "Chu" Berry, were more notable jazz performers than the ones who were working with Prima at about this same time.

This CD is full of fine but lesser-known Manone recordings. "Manone Blues" is a delightful uptemo driving blues with the band responding in a most traditional way to Wingy's vocal calls.

Manone shows a high degree of showmanship and Classics has done a decent job of compling the 78's, most of which have not been reissued in the US.