Phil Napoleon
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Phil Napoleon was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader who was born as Filippo Napoli in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1901. He achieved early professional recognition after forming the ensemble The Original Memphis Five in 1917 alongside the pianist Frank Signorelli and is famous for being a pioneer of jazz in the northeastern United States whose style influenced musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke. His career included an extensive recording output in the 1920s with The Original Memphis Five, which produced over 100 recordings between 1922 and 1923, including the track âClarinet Marmaladeâ (1927). During the 1930s, he worked as a session musician for the RCA Radio Orchestra and as a house conductor and soloist for NBC. In the mid-1940s, he joined the group led by Jimmy Dorsey and appeared in the film Four Jills in a Jeep (1944). Napoleon reformed The Original Memphis Five in 1950 and performed at the Newport Jazz Festival (1959), which resulted in the studio recording Phil Napoleon and His Memphis Five (1960). He established the club Napoleon's Retreat in Miami, Florida, in 1966. Napoleon died in 1990.
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- You Can't Cheat A Cheater
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- Limehouse Blues
- Milenburg Joys
- South
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- Wolverine Blues
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