Jazz Articles about Cab Calloway

About Cab Calloway

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Cab Calloway & The Nicholas Brothers: Jumpin' Jive

by Ian Patterson
December 25, 2025

Born on Christmas Day 1907 in Rochester, New York, bandleader Cab Calloway enjoyed a brilliant career that spanned the 1920s to the 1990s. He made his name at the helm of the Cab Calloway Orchestra between 1930-1948, a period that included a four-residency at the Cotton Club. At various times his swing orchestra included musicians of the caliber of Chu Berry, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Milt Hinton, Doc Cheatham and Dizzy Gillespie--the latter who was fired from the band for ...

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Book Review

Hi-De-Ho: The Life Of Cab Calloway

by David Rickert
February 3, 2011

Hi-De-Ho: The Life of Cab CallowayAlyn ShiptonHardcover; 288 pagesISBN 9780195141535Oxford University Press2010 During the swing revival of the 1990s it was singer and bandleader Cab Calloway, and not Benny Goodman or Duke Ellington or Glenn Miller, who provided the biggest influence--with the snazzy suits, hep language, and singer and band call and response that made Calloway famous. It was as if all you needed to do to form ...