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 ...

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 ...

Although chart-topping, scat-singing jazz legend and actor Cab Calloway passed away nearly 30 years ago, his name has been on the tip of the tongues of many Baltimoreans in recent months as a result ...

One of my very first Required Listenings was about an old, old jazz recording called "Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin. I would like to feature more recordings of that nature in Required Listening ...

Cab Calloway was still in Frederick Douglass High School when a drama critic with The Afro-American newspaper observed “When Broadway taps this boy, goodbye Baltimore.” The year was 1924 and Calloway ...

CAB CALLOWAY IS A JAZZ LEGEND, THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO SELL A MILLION RECORDS WITH A SINGLE SONG. >> HE IS THE GRANDFATHER OF HIP HOP AND THE WRAP MOVEMENTS WE SEE TODAY BECAUSE HE CAME FROM ...