Louis Prima could only have come from New Orleans. From the 1920s through the 1940s, the city was a glorious mix of ethnic and racial groups united by food, music and an insatiable passion for good times. Prima, a trumpeter from an Italian family, got his start as a band leader in the early 1930s and headed to New York with his New Orleans Gang.
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