Drawings by CABU – Script and dialogue by Jean-Francois PITET
This is the unlikely meeting between an authentic jazz star and an emblematic French cartoon character: Cab Calloway telling his life story to “Grand Duduche”. And editorial cartoonist CABU (1938-2015), a fan of the former and the creator of the latter, was definitely the right man to illustrate the dialogue between them, full of complicity and humour.
“Grand Duduche”, the character eternally in love with the head-teacher’s daughter, finally learns a lot from the man who remained faithful to Minnie the Moocher his whole life: Cab Calloway (1907-1994).
As a singer, bandleader, dancer, and entertainer, Cab left his mark on jazz history: from the Cotton Club and its chorus girls, through the big band era and its decline, and then Broadway and Porgy & Bess, right up to his own renaissance at the age of over 70 with the film The Blues Brothers… Cab had seen it all, and it’s only logical that he should confide his secrets to the cult cartoon-hero invented by Cabu.
• Published in 2010 by BD Music and ARTE Editions
• Included: 2 CDs of the best songs and tunes by Cab Calloway and his orchestra
• Released on July 4, 2010, for the first airing of the documentary « Cab Calloway, le dandy de Harlem » (« Cab Calloway: Sketches ») on the European channel ARTE TV.
• AVAILABLE HERE •
And English-speaking readers even get a full biography
in English with great pictures included!
