Ladi Geisler - Java

It was a huge instrumental hit for trumpet player Al Hirt back in 1964, this Allen Toussaint’s “Java“. Toussaint wrote the tune in 1958 for an album that would be released by RCA and Toussaint’s studio recording did quite well in the easy listening charts. But Al Hirt’s trumpet version did even better : it was on the no1 position (easy listening) for several weeks. Hirt also won a Grammy Award in the category “Best instrumentalist or orchestra“. Here Bert Kaempfert’s “knack bass specialist“ Ladi Geisler