Keely Smith, a popular jazz vocalist and a fixture in the 1950s world of Las Vegas and a musical partner to her husband, Louis Prima, has died. She was 89. Conjure up an image of Prima's lounge act - ...

PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Keely Smith, a pop and jazz singer known for her solo recordings of jazz standards as well as her musical partnership with Louis Prima, has died of apparent heart failure in ...

Jump, Jive An' Wail: The Essential Louis Prima Presents 26 of the Grammy-Winner's Best, Including “I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song)," “Jump, Jive An' Wail," “Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody," ...

Keely Smith, the Grammy winning singer known for her solo recordings of jazz standards as well as her partnership with her first husband, Louis Prima, died Dec. 16 in Palm Springs, Calif. She was 89 ...

When Louisianaborn trumpet player Louis Prima The Chief married Virginiaborn singer Keely Smith The Queen of Swing their union created a magical sound that dominated 1950s jazz Here the legendary ...

The lightning and storms that filled the Los Angeles night failed to top the energy Keely Smith put forth at Feinstein's. Opening with the raucous and swinging "Let the Good Times Roll," the ...

Keely Smith, a smoky-voiced singer with a pageboy bob who emerged in the early 1950s as the deadpan half of a Grammy Award-winning lounge act with Louis Prima, the ebullient, frenzied bandleader who ...

In her lovely big band tribute to Louis Prima, Keely Smith sings the chestnuts that we remember him by. Her voice is in top form and she's able to provide the kind of intimate humor that she and Prima ...

The concept of "cool," invented by jazz musicians, was incarnated in the late 1950s in Las Vegas by Louis Prima and Keely Smith. Smith is widely credited with being the only female member of the ...