Discover the many stories of the singer, leader, musician, MC, dandy, gamer, father, seducer…
“Hi De Ho,” “Jumpin’ Jive” and many more make you feel that life is always entertaining
Dizzy Gillespie, Ben Webster, Jonah Jones and so many forgotten musicians are to be (re-)discovered
Come along for a year in Cab’s life: the shows, the new faces, the tours, every swinging moment
In October 1940, over 16 million American men registered for the nation’s first peacetime draft. Cab Calloway was among them. However, as biographer Alyn Shipton revealed, Calloway was turned down by his draft board “on the grounds of a slightly… Read the full story →
“With [Reuben] Reeve’s trumpet and the Nanton-styled soloing of DePriest Wheeler, the band had quite an Ellington flavor.” This is how Steve Voce, the famous British jazz columnist, described Cab Calloway’s faithful trombonist, DePriest WHEELER, in a 1957 interview of the… Read the full story →
