Cab Calloway
Sign in to saveAmerican jazz singer (1907–1994)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1907
- Died
- 1994-11-18
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Porgy and Bess
- Of Minnie the Moocher & me
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Rochester, New York, USA
Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader. Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s. Calloway's band featured performers including trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists…
Known for
- Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer — The Old Man of the Mountain (voice) (archive sound)2024
- Everything's Fine — Himself (Voice)2020
- Cab Calloway: Sketches — Himself2012
- The Harlem Renaissance — Self (archive footage)2004
- TV in Black: The First Fifty Years — Self (archive footage)2004
- Piano Blues — Self (archive footage)2003
- Grass — Self (archive footage)1999
- The Stories Behind the Making of 'The Blues Brothers' — Self (archive footage)1998
- Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons — Self (archive footage)1995
- Night of 100 Stars III — Self1990
via TMDB
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Cabell "Cab" Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was a jazz singer, bandleader, composer and actor. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, where he was a regular performer. Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular big bands, Cab Calloway and his Orchestra, from the start of the 1930s through to the late 1940s. Calloway's band featured performers including trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Doc C
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Key facts
- Born
- Cabell Calloway III , ( 1907-12-25 ) December 25, 1907 , Rochester, New York , U.S.
- Died
- November 18, 1994 (1994-11-18) (aged 86), Hockessin, Delaware , U.S.
- Genres
- Jazz blues swing big band
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter bandleader actor
- Years active
- 1927–1994
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 25 December 1907
- Died
- 18 November 1994
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Rochester
- Place of death
- Hockessin
- Child
- Ja'Net DuBois
- Sibling
- Blanche Calloway
- Occupation
- songwriter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
Article
Cabell Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer, songwriter, bandleader, and actor. He was a regular performer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he became a popular vocalist of the swing era. His niche of mixing jazz and vaudeville won him acclaim during a career that spanned over 65 years.
Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the most popular dance bands in the United States from the early 1930s to the late 1940s. His band included trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie, Jonah Jones, and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry, guitarist Danny Barker, bassist Milt Hinton, and drummer Cozy Cole.
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1907 births1994 deaths20th-century African-American male singers20th-century American Episcopalians20th-century American male singers20th-century American singers20th-century American songwritersABC Records artistsAfrican-American history of Westchester County, New YorkAfrican-American jazz musiciansAfrican-American songwritersAmerican big band bandleaders