To many on the outside, Louis Prima's place in American music history is tenuous. With one jazz standard ("Sing Sing Sing"), one early rock classic ("Jump Jive 'N' Wail"), and a string of novelty hits ...

NEW ORLEANS— New Orleans-born singer Louis Prima was a world-wide superstar in his time, and he left and incredible music legacy behind when he died in 1978. Now, a tribute exhibit is on display at ...

The Wildest! (1957) is the first album by Louis Prima and Keely Smith with Sam Butera and The Witnesses. Prima had found the right cast for his mad mixture of swing, Italian double talk and deadpan ...

To celebrate Prima in New Orleans, the New Orleans Jazz Museum has mounted a yearlong exhibit, "The Wildest: Louis Prima Comes Home," which includes rare Prima family artifacts and photos, listening ...

Louis Prima and Keely Smith were as hip as they come. The married singing duo dominated the Las Vegas nightclub scene from the 1950s through the early 1960s with a fast-paced mix of New Orleans jazz, ...

The granite crypt topped by the trumpet-playing angel stands on what was once a horseracing track, a fitting final resting place for the pony-loving Louis Prima. The inscription on his tomb in ...

The apple may not fall far from the tree but every once in a while it bounces a little. Louis Prima Jr. has just released his debut album, which would have made his famous dad proud. Louis Prima was a ...

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 ...

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 ...