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Candido: Fountain of Youth

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by AAJ Staff

By Bobby Sanabria At the youthful age of 87, NEA Jazz Master Candido Camero has indeed led a full life with no signs of slowing down. While still maintaining a busy schedule of performing and traveling, “The Man of a Thousand Fingers" is still wowing audiences the world over as a shining example of ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

Cab Calloway Home a New Landmark?

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by Fradley Garner

“A bad happening for the jazz community" is how reedsman Dave Liebman described the demise earlier this year of the International Association of Jazz Educators. Why IAJE filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy is still being asked, but part of the problem was the return to Toronto for this year's conference. Attendance was little more than half ...

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Hi De Ho

Featuring the music of Cab Calloway
Duration: 10:50

Singer and bandleader Cab Calloway in a Vitaphone movie short. In spite of some dreadful racial stereoptypes (which were all too common in films in 1937), Calloway and his orchestra shine in 4 musical numbers: "I've Got A Right To Sing The Blues", "The Hi-De-Ho Miracle Man", "Frisco Flo", "Some Of These Days"
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St. James Infirmary

Featuring the music of Cab Calloway
Duration: 2:30

Cab Calloway sings one of his classic songs in this 1964 television appearance.
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Joe Wilder: A True Living Legend

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by Greg Thomas

Joe Wilder, a true living legend of the trumpet, is at long last getting what fellow brass great Roy Eldridge used to call “his screen credits . After 60+ years of superlative support work in big bands, Broadway pit orchestras and commercials, Wilder is finally headlining his own quartet at the Village Vanguard. ...

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Classic Jazz Archive - "The Hi-Dee-Ho Man"

By Cab Calloway

Label: Not On Label
Released: 2004

Album

The Gold Collection

By Cab Calloway

Label: Not On Label
Released: 2004

Album

A Proper Introduction To Cab Calloway: Zah, Zuh, Zaz

By Cab Calloway

Label: Not On Label
Released: 2004

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Article: Book Review

Swing It: An Annotated History of Jive

Read "Swing It: An Annotated History of Jive" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke

by R.J. DeLuke

Swing It: An Annotated History of Jive Bill Milkowski ISBN: 0823076717 Billboard Books2001 The history of jazz music is rich with characters, “scenes,” stages in music development and musical progress—all peppered with its own mythology.One feature of the jazz world over the years is ...

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The Hi-De-Ho Man: 1930-1933

By Cab Calloway

Label: Not On Label
Released: 2003


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