Born in New Orleans, trumpeter, singer and entertainer Louis Prima grew up in the city's Italian-American community. He was influenced not only by New Orleans's Black jazz and folk culture but also ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a deal that includes both rights to Prima's masters and publishing, Reservoir now holds shares of classics like "Sing, Sing, Sing" and "Pennies from Heaven." By Kristin Robinson Senior Writer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Las Vegas entertainer, Louis Prima referred to Sam Butera as "The Big Horn". For 20 years, the tenor saxophonist led the Witnesses, who accompanied Prima and his wives, Keely Smith and Gia Maione, ...

His father was a swing legend who voiced King Louie in Disney’s “The Jungle Book.” This Thursday night, Louis Prima Jr. performs live at City Winery in Northeast D.C. “I cannot tell you how good it is ...

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 ...