Results for "Cab Calloway"

Giacomo Gates: An Unconventional Backstory

by Sean Dietrich
July 21, 2010

Giacomo Gates brings a rich, full-bodied timbre to the vocal jazz table. His pure vocalese approach has earned him lauds among critics, who hail him a champion artist in the modern jazz genre. He's been performing alongside the most recognized artists in the industry, using only his voice to produce a broad range of spectral color. ...

It Ain't Necessarily So

Featuring the music of Cab Calloway
Duration: 3:55
December 25, 2009

Strike Up the (Unsung) Bands

by Jack Bowers
December 5, 2009

The big band era is known for producing a number of enormously successful ensembles whose leaders were household names: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, then on through Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the brothers Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie and, ...

Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary

by Chris May
October 23, 2009

Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary Stephen Calt Paperback; 320 pages ISBN: 978-0-252-007660-2 Hardback: 320 pages ISBN: 978-0-252-03347-6 University of Illinois Press 2009 Unlike most dictionaries of jazz and blues language, of which bandleader Cab Calloway's Hepsters Dictionary and the ...

Free Movie Nights with "Lady Day," "The Duke," and Charlie "Bird" Parker!

September 30, 2009

Make Tuesday the new Friday and join the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center for the first “Scenes Through the Cinema Lens" on October 20 at 7:30! An original retrospective focusing on the performing arts in film, this years series will highlight several of the great performers from the Lost Jazz Shrines and rarely seen footage of ...

Popular Song on the Picket Lines

September 7, 2009

For the Labor Day holiday, the Afterglow program “Popular Song On the Picket Lines” features “social significance” music from the 1930s and 40s that had a political message behind it in one way or another, or alluded in humorous or poignant ways to issues and problems of the times. Many artists in those years were involved ...

Pori Jazz: Finland's Finest Festival

by Anthony Shaw
July 29, 2009

44th International Pori Jazz FestivalPori, FinlandJuly 10-18, 2009 Summer festivals have been a feature of the music scene probably since time immemorial--Wolfgang Mozart was very familiar with the concept at least, writing commissions for evening fêtes and soirées. And it has surely always been an inescapable fact that the weather can make or break ...

"A Swingin' Affair" Outshines Its Name

by Jack Bowers
June 8, 2009

With an appreciative bow and genial tip of the hat to the late Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra, the Los Angeles Jazz Institute named its semi-annual big-band soiree May 21-24 at the Sheraton LAX Four Points Hotel “A Swingin' Affair." Was the event able to live up to its name? In the immortal words of ...

Take Five With Ray George

by AAJ Staff
April 4, 2009

Meet Ray George:Mixing... musical talent; acting bbility and audience participation. Ray George presents a uniquely different approach to the music and club scene. Standards, oldies, vintage music. Songs ff Gershwin, Porter and Berlin. Oldies from Carol King, The Everly Brothers And Elvis. Mellow, vocal styling, with backings of light jazz combo group, pop arrangements ...

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Celebrate the Music & Legacy of Cab Calloway

March 28, 2009

HOW BIG CAN YOU GET 100 Years of Cab Calloway featuring Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Celebrate the music & legacy of Cab Calloway Cab Calloway was a legendary fireball of talent, whose infectious hi-de-his, ho-dehos, scattin and jivin, in a baritone singing voice rich and vibrant, became the spirited cry ...