Superficial but thoroughly engaging, Don McGlynn's documentary breezes through the life and be-bopping times of Louis Prima, whose five-decade career was rooted in a ballsy, cheerfully vulgar performing style that swirled Dixieland, jazz, swing and comic
raunch into an audience-pleasing hybrid. You don't have to be a Prima fan to enjoy the movie's treasure trove of archival clips, but they might just make you a convert. More likely you'll realize you're more familiar with Prima than you thought. He voiced the Ape King in Disney's 1967 THE JUNGLE
BOOK; David Lee Roth covered his arrangement of "Just a Gigolo"/"I Ain't Got Nobody" in the '80s; he wrote the jazz stand...
Released:
2000
Rated:
NR
Length:
82 mins