Cab Calloway Orchestra News

 
Jazz legends on film
Chicago Tribune
Most people these days can't say they have ever seen a live performance by Cab Calloway or Duke Ellington; it's been a long time since Calloway and Ellington rocked the scene. Jazz Film Forum gives you a glimpse into the 1930s-'50s in time for Black ...


 
TheaterMania.com
Cab Calloway Documentary to Premiere on PBS in February
TheaterMania.com
By Dan Bacalzo • Jan 23, 2012 • New York A new music documentary, entitled Cab Calloway: Sketches, will premiere on PBS on as part of the American Masters, airing in the New York metro-area on THIRTEEN Sunday, February 26 at 8pm, and nationally on ...
Cab Calloway PBS American Masters' Documentary a no miss (VIDEO)Monsters and Critics.com

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The Commercial Dispatch
Drape Shape and Reet Pleats
The Commercial Dispatch
Cab Calloway knew something about extreme styles. In his The Hepster's Dictionary he listed "ZOOT (adj.): exaggerated." Just under it, necessarily, was "ZOOT SUIT (n.): the ultimate in clothes. The only totally and truly American civilian suit.


 
Wall Street Journal
A Young Lion, All Grown Up
Wall Street Journal
It's a perfect set up for his own vocal: As a singer, he can barely string two notes together, but he knows how to goose a crowd with some call-and-response scatting with the band (the kind that Dizzy learned from Cab Calloway), and darned if he ...


 
Red Clay seeks $47 million in school referendum
The News Journal
The two schools that would get the most work would be Dickinson High School, which the district says needs more than $11 million in renovations, and Cab Calloway School of the Arts, which would get more than $12 million in work. Cab Calloway parent ...

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Life & Style Big Bad Voodoo Daddy swings in Seattle
KOMO News
A Tribute to Cab Calloway. Contemporary swing band, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy will return to Seattle's Jazz Alley March 1-4 to perform hits from their new release How Big Can You Get? A Tribute to Cab Calloway. This album seeks to capture the essence of an ...


 
Television Week (blog)
The Grammys Need To Recognize Four Great Artists as Lifetime Achievement Honorees
Television Week (blog)
Thus far the Grammys have recognized 142 individuals and groups for their lifetimes of achievement, including such disparate talents as Cab Calloway, the Carter Family, Pablo Casals, John Coltrane, Perry Como and Cream. Here's a trio I suggest be ...

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