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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Louis Prima Jr., the son of the legendary New Orleans swing showman, performs tonight in the Superstar Theater at Resorts Casino Hotel. Fans of Louis Prima will appreciate his son's jump jiving ...

Louis Prima Jr. loves it when people leave one of his band's shows in a daze. They'd probably arrived, he said, expecting a low-key lounge act. Instead, when they depart, "they describe it as getting ...

You can see the imprint of New Orleans, his hometown, in Louis Prima’s irrepressible stage performances. Often, he and his band jumped around and hammed it up so exuberantly that it was hard for ...

A Sicilian-American singer, actor, songwriter and trumpeter, Louis Prima rode the musical trends of his time, starting with his seven-piece New Orleans style jazz band in the 1920s, then successively ...

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, Jr., has a new album. He talks about being the son of the King of Swing, and pulling audio from his dad’s recordings to use in his own music.

You might know Louis Prima as the voice of King Louie in Disney’s The Jungle Book or maybe you’ve heard David Lee Roth’s 80s version of his hit song Just a ...

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 ...