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 ...

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 ...

The Italian American Museum of Los Angeles is celebrating the legacy of a legendary musician. Its Louis Prima Party kicks off at 6 p.m. Friday, March 22. “This event is presented in conjunction with ...

As he discussed his second-generation show business career, Louis Prima Jr., son of the late Crescent City showman, rolled up his sleeve to reveal a portrait of his father tattooed on his left forearm ...

Lena Prima, daughter of "The King of Swing," wants to help set the record straight. For years, many have wondered how her father Louis Prima and Frank Sinatra – two Italian crooners who heated up Sin ...

Louis Prima Jr., Kate Curran and The Witnesses. (Staten Island Advance/Carol Ann Benanti) Louis Prima Jr. and The Witnesses, who travel the world bringing the music of his famous dad (of the same name ...

Louis Prima Jr. knows all about having to live up to a famous father’s legacy. “I could open the gates for the Second Coming, and people would go, ‘Yeah, but He’s not His father,’ ” he jokes. The son ...

Whatever you called it — swing, jump blues, early rock ‘n’ roll — the music of bandleader Louis Prima was addictive fun. From New Orleans to New York to Las Vegas, he reinvented himself over the ...

In order to find old school Las Vegas, Lena Prima had to move to New Orleans. “New Orleans reminds me of old Vegas,” Prima said. “The people are out on the street. They’re out in the (French) Quarter.

Back when Chez Paree was chic and the Empire Room at the Palmer House Hotel was in its regal cabaret splendor, the vocalist Keely Smith was once a regular visitor to Chicago. She came first as a ...

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, ...

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 ...