Étiquette : arranger
Crowned “The King”, inspired by King Oliver, leader of his own band for a while, famous for composing Jitterbug, noted soloist on muted trumpet and high notes, Edwin Swayze is a musician who deserves to be rediscovered for his intense career… Read the full story →
Crowned “The King”, inspired by King Oliver, leader of his own band for a while, famous for composing Jitterbug, noted soloist on muted trumpet and high notes, Edwin Swayze is a musician who deserves to be rediscovered for his intense career… Read the full story →
Crowned “The King”, inspired by King Oliver, leader of his own band for a while, famous for composing Jitterbug, noted soloist on muted trumpet and high notes, Edwin Swayze is a musician who deserves to be rediscovered for his intense career… Read the full story →
St. Louis Blues (1958) is a movie production that was filled with promise, a film biography of W.C. Handy covering the obstacles and successes of a great American, a musical with a magnificent canon of songs, and the on-screen assembly… Read the full story →
On several occasions in the 1970s Cab teamed up with producer Ben Bagley to record musical comedy show tunes for LP salutes to the great popular songwriters. Bagley’s Revisited series of albums pay tribute to the iconic Broadway composers and lyricists with… Read the full story →
Recorded in December 1958, this album was supposed to let people discover Cab Calloway’s “stylized vocal” in full stereo, backed by a big band orchestra. It was eventually released in June 1960! The Hi De Ho Blog tries to explain… Read the full story →
Cab Calloway’s 1962 album of standards, Blues Make Me Happy has recently been released on CD on the Sepia label. The original Coral LP has been re-mastered and cleaned up for the first time using the CEDAR noise-reduction process, with rare bonus material from the Coral and ABC-Paramount labels. The new… Read the full story →
In March 1968, Cab Calloway released an album entitled “Cab ‘68” with 11 songs arranged and conducted by Maurice Bugs BOWER. The LP was the first release by label P.I.P., of Pickwick International. Leaning on the Hello Dolly!’ success, Cab sang tunes… Read the full story →
Here is the second part of the portrait of one of Cab Calloway’s most loyal musical companions, a man about whom very little is known. Soon after Walter ‘Foots’ Thomas joined the Missourians, the band came under the sway of… Read the full story →