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Cab Calloway

Cab Calloway

Birthday: 1907-12-25 | Place of Birth: Rochester, New York, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cab Calloway, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2003
Piano Blues

as    Self (archive footage)

1980
The Blues Brothers

as    Curtis

1965
The Cincinnati Kid

as    Yeller

1958
St. Louis Blues

as    Blade

1947
Hi-De-Ho

as    Himself

1944
Sensations of 1945

as    Cab Calloway

1934
Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho

as    Cab Calloway

1934
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame

as    Old Man / Reporter

1932
Minnie the Moocher

as    Cab Calloway (uncredited)