Best remembered for his risque Vegas act of the 1950s, Louis Prima was the ultimate showman. Loud, boisterous, and completely out front, his mix of rhythm and blues, big band music, Italian novelty ...
The cast of 'Jump, Jive and Wail' swings through the music of Louis Prima at the Stage Door Canteen. (Photo by Stage Door Canteen) It's not an exhibit on newly declassified information on the ...
During her interview session at the 2015 French Quarter Festival's "Let Them Talk" series on Sunday (April 12), Lena Prima reminisced extensively about her father, the late trumpeter, bandleader and ...
Keely Smith, a smoky-voiced balladeer who became a nightclub sensation in the 1950s with her then-husband, the comically disruptive entertainer Louis Prima, and who gradually emerged from his shadow ...
Louis Prima, "the man who played pretty for the people," still entertaining them at N.O. Jazz Museum
If you’re of a certain age, you know Louis Prima's songs and wild on-stage antics from TV or Las Vegas. If you’re younger, you know his songs recorded by younger artists like David Lee Roth and Brian ...
When your father was Las Vegas royalty and one of the hippest cats in history, you naturally grow up with music in your blood. Born in 1965, Louis Prima Jr. is the son of Louis Prima and Gia Maione, ...
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Keely Smith, a Las Vegas legend and one of most popular singers in the era of Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack, died Saturday of heart failure after a long period of declining ...
Gia Maione Prima, the widow of singer Louis Prima, who performed alongside him in the last decade of his life and then spent years protecting his musical legacy and introducing it to a new generation ...
Nearly 40 years after his passing, Louis Prima makes history on the Billboard Hot 100. The jazz trumpeter, singer, composer and bandleader, who died in August 1978, debuts at #42 on the chart (dated ...
Louis Prima: King of the Swingers Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers March 3, 2022 Born in New Orleans, trumpeter, singer and entertainer Louis Prima grew up in the city's Italian-American community. He ...
A former bandmate of Louis Prima argues in this 1999 video biography that the exuberant crooner, trumpeter, and composer belongs on the “Mount Rushmore of Italian singers,” alongside Sinatra and ...
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