- Hi de hi de hi de ho!" Charismatic music and dance pioneer Cab Calloway (1907 – 94) is an exceptional figure in the history of jazz. (Examiner)
- Cab Calloway: Sketches: An American Masters presentation. 10 p.m. Mon. on PBS. Cab Calloways grandson tells the story of how the great singer-bandleader created his signature style of bonelessly serpentine movement onstage. (San Francisco Gate)
- Ive long thought that the great PBS series American Masters (10 p.m. on WGBH) should really be called American Originals. And no one better deserves or personifies that title than tonights Masters subject, Cab Calloway. (South Coast Today)
- Cab Calloway in Stormy Weather Long before there was Black History Month, there was Cab Calloway. During the 1930s and '40s the jazz-blues-swing-poet introduced an urban African-American lexicon to an unsuspecting white audience 365 days a year. (Chicago Sun-Times)
- Cab Calloway grows up in Baltimore, a predominantly black city. During this time Cab works as a paper boy, walks horses at the racetrack, and sings all while going to school. (NewsHour)
- Eight musicians, and one piece of architecture, are the first inductees to the Rochester Music Hall of Fame. (Democrat and Chronicle)
- Charisma and creativity, energy and elegance all dressed up in white on white double breasted zoot suit with looping gold chain. (Dover Post)
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Cab calloway
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