Cab Calloway

Known for

Acting

Born

Dec 25, 1907

Died

Nov 18, 1994

From

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 Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry, New Orleans guitar ace Danny Barker, and bassist Milt Hinton. Calloway continued to perform until his death in 1994 at the age of 86.

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The Blues Brothers

19807.7out of 10

The Cincinnati Kid

19657.0out of 10

The Love Boat

19776.3out of 10

Snow-White

19336.8out of 10

Minnie the Moocher

19326.6out of 10

Triumph Over Violence

19657.5out of 10

Stormy Weather

19436.8out of 10

The Old Man of the Mountain

19336.7out of 10

Grass

19996.6out of 10

What's My Line?

19507.0out of 10

Great Performances

19716.1out of 10

International House

19335.7out of 10

The Ed Sullivan Show

19486.8out of 10

Betty Boop's Rise to Fame

19346.1out of 10

Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho

19346.4out of 10

Harry O

19745.2out of 10

The Mike Douglas Show

19615.8out of 10

Piano Blues

20036.5out of 10