Today is the birthday of New Orleans-born, Sicilian-American jazz trumpeter and vocalist Louis Prima (1910-1978). Prima was one of my mom’s favorites; she often raved about seeing him perform live in Providence in the ’40s (even my 86 year old mom is a bit too young to have experienced vaudeville). Prima was of the era of presentation [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:50AM on December 7, 2012