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 ...
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 ...
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It's likely that Louis Prima would have faded into obscurity if not for the Gap ad that featured young, khaki-wearing twenty-somethings swing dancing to "Jump, Jive, and Wail. That ad appeared at the ...
Louis Prima and Keely Smith made the Las Vegas lounge scene the place to be in the 1950s, and their music has enjoyed several revivals over the decades. Tom Clavin, author of That Old Black Magic: ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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