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Thursday November 21st, 2024

Cab Calloway Jazz musician

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Dec 25, 1907
  • Died: Nov 18, 1994

Cabell "Cab" Calloway III was a jazz singer and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, where he was a regular performer.

Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular big bands from the start of the 1930s through to the late 1940s. Calloway's band featured performers including trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry, New Orleans guitar ace Danny Barker, and bassist Milt Hinton. Calloway continued to perform until his death in 1994 at the age of 86.

We usually never got out of there before four or five o'clock in the morning. Every morning. So it was rough. morning

90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness. happiness

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