Cab Calloway profile
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Cab Calloway

25th December 1907 Rochester, New York, USA Acting

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.

49 Movies 8 TV Shows 65 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Grass poster
Grass 15th September 1999 as Self (archive footage)
Jazz Ball poster
Jazz Ball 1st January 1956 as Self (archive footage)
Hi-De-Ho poster
Hi-De-Ho 20th February 1937 as Cab Calloway