Cab Calloway is widely recognized as one of the most influential figures in jazz music during the 1930s and 1940s. His unique style of singing, showmanship, and pioneering musical innovations helped ...

*On Friday, May 13, Corky Hale presents I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU – The Life and Lyrics of Al Dubin, at the Montalban Theatre, in Hollywood. This new musical features lyrics by Al Dubin, music mostly ...

Born on Christmas Day 1907 in Rochester, New York, bandleader Cab Calloway enjoyed a brilliant career that spanned the 1920s to the 1990s. He made his name at the helm of the Cab Calloway Orchestra ...

This medal was awarded to Cab Calloway as the result of a national competition, the Pittsburgh Courier’s 3rd Annual Band Contest. This contest appears to have started in 1933 and then resumed in the ...

Cab Calloway's grandson tells the story of how the great singer-bandleader created his signature style of bonelessly serpentine movement onstage. Back in the day, Calloway, the subject of a Black ...

A black-and-white photograph of dancers in matching outfits in front of Cab Calloway. Calloway is depicted wearing a light colored tuxedo. The large group of women dancers are wearing matching white ...

*You’ve heard “Minnie The Moocher” countless times before, but have you ever stopped to really take in the lyrics? If so, could you understand what Cab Calloway was really saying through all of the ...

After the band vamp (as if for a stripper’s entrance) and Birdland’s announcement, “The Prince of Hi-De-Ho, Calloway Brooks”, a tall lean gent jumped on stage to front the mostly hatted variously ...

16mm silent color film shot by Cab Calloway during his 1951 tour in Haiti. This film features footage of Cab Calloway and his band performing on an outdoor stage, the local townspeople, a local ...

Compilation reel of 16mm color home movies of Cab Calloway and his family in Long Island, New York at Easter. The film also has footage of Calloway's tour of South America in 1951 including carnival ...

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 ...