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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...