Cab Calloway - Essential Classics, Vol. 724: Cab Calloway (2025)

14 Jan, 17:52
change text size:

Artist: Cab Calloway
Title: Essential Classics, Vol. 724: Cab Calloway
Year Of Release: 2025
Label: Essential Classics
Genre: Jazz
Quality: Flac (tracks)
Total Time: 1:00:03
Total Size: 205 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:
1. Minnie The Moocher (3:10)
2. Kickin' The Gong Around (3:13)
3. Moon Glow (3:11)
4. St. James Infirmary (3:03)
5. The Jumpin' Jive (2:49)
6. The Honeydripper (2:55)
7. Reefer Man (2:54)
8. Evenin' (2:47)
9. Jitter Bug (3:10)
10. Zaz Zuh Zaz (3:26)

1. The Lady With The Fan (3:18)
2. Hotcha Razz-ma-tazz (3:13)
3. The Scat Song (2:43)
4. Harlem Hospitality (2:38)
5. St. Louis Blues (2:54)
6. Chinese Rhythm (2:45)
7. The Ghost Of Smokey Joe (2:47)
8. Keep That Hi-de-hi In Your Soul (2:57)
9. Nagasaki (2:58)
10. The Man From Harlem (3:01)

Born: 25th December 1907, Rochester, New York, USA.
Died: 18th November 1994, Cokebury Village, Hockessin, Delaware, USA.

American band-leader of the 1930s-1940s, jazz musician, singer, song-writer & multi-talented EmCee renowned for his 'scat singing' style.

Calloway's orchestra rotated as a 'house band' with that of Duke Ellington at the famous Cotton Club in Harlem through the Prohibition era. His snappy 'zoot-suit' dress sense and skillful vaudeville song-and-dance routines made him an extremely popular entertainer. His 'moonwalking' predating that of Michael Jackson by about a half-century.

In later years he continued performing and featured in films, such as "The Cincinnati Kid" (1965) with Steve McQueen & Edward G. Robinson. The "Cab Calloway School of the Arts", in Wilmington, Delaware, was dedicated in his name in 1994. Calloway died shortly after a stroke and his ashes are interred at Ferncliffe Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.

Brother of Blanche Calloway.

IsraCloud