Sam Butera, photographed in his native New Orleans in 2002. Sam Butera, the hard-driving, hard-swinging New Orleans saxophonist who was Louis Prima's longtime musical partner, died Wednesday in Las ...
Louis Prima Jr. & The Witnesses To Release Blow On June 10 A different kind of musical dawn is coming with flashes of rowdy big band, simmering soul and swaggering rock 'n' roll as Louis Prima Jr. and ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The son of a legendary jump-swing bandleader, Louis Prima Jr. grew up listening to classic rock and even fronted a rock band in the 1980s "with long hair and everything." But the excitement of his ...
Louis Prima Jr. knows all about having to live up to a famous father’s legacy. “I could open the gates for the Second Coming, and people would go, ‘Yeah, but He’s not His father,’ ” he jokes. The son ...
Las Vegas just couldn’t compare. For most of her professional life, Las Vegas native Lena Prima was based in the casino-resort city, where her father, Louis, had been a major attraction. But in 2011, ...