Cab Calloway Biography
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.
Cab Calloway Movies
Cab Calloway Quotes
Advice to Attend Church
Curtis:
Well, the Sister was right. You boys could use a little churching up. Slide on down to the Triple Rock, and catch Rev. Cleophus. You boys listen to what he's got to say.
Jake: [annoyed]
Curtis, I don't want to listen to no jive-ass preacher talking to me about Heaven and Hell.
Curtis:
Jake, you get wise. You get to church.
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