Get Published Nov 12, 2009
Nov 12, 2009 Nov 12: Jackson State University Bubbling Brown Sugar is a musical revue by Loften Mitchell, featuring the music of African-American artists like Duke Ellington, Eubie Blake, Count Basie, Cab Calloway and Fats Waller. It's the story of Harlem in the Golden Years, with great songs from the era like 'God Bless the Child', 'Ain't Misbehavin' and 'It Don't Mean A Thing. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Love is the constant in ‘Cravings’ Oct 12, 2009
She opens with Cab Calloway s Everybody Eats When They Come to My House - and she means it. Standing behind two tables loaded with bowls, a blender, and a bottle of Manischewitz, she prepares food while she speaks, sometimes attired in an apron. (Boston Globe)
THIS YEAR'S HOWL! SHOULD BE A HOOT Sep 3, 2009
Sunday at 5 p.m., the lavish, two-hour theater piece "Low Life 3: Viper Mad" will celebrate the hipster "viper culture" that permeated Harlem and downtown in the '20s and '30s, featuring the music of Cab Calloway and Fats Waller, among others. You may want to steer the younger set away from that one. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Morton getting ready for 100th Aug 14, 2009
" Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and located on downtown Athens' "Hot Corner," the Morton Building holds a key place in the history of Athens. At one time the heart of the city's black business district, the Morton opened May 18, 1910, and it is thought that through the years, the venue hosted such musical luminaries as Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington. After years of disrepair, the Morton faced an untimely end in the 1980s, but a local-option sales tax was... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Swedish Hip-Hop Jazz Band Movits! Burns Up the iTunes Hip-Hop Chart at #2 and #18 Overall Aug 5, 2009
The album, sung entirely in Swedish, is influenced as much by legendary hip-hop artists as it is by Cab Calloway. Their single, "Fel Del Av Garden," has seen its five-star rated YouTube video viewings jump from 100,000 to almost a quarter of a million in a matter of a few days. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
HARLEM IN MONTMARTRE: A Paris Jazz Story Hits All the Right Notes on PBS' Great Performances Series Aug 5, 2009
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Beloved American jazz singer and bandleader Cab Calloway once said, You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmy Luncefords, the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones. While far from ordinary, Harlem in Montmartre tells the story of the long-forgotten extraordinary ones, who left America to create the jazz age in Paris between the First and Second... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
New Orleans hotel reopens 4 years after Katrina Jul 30, 2009
As important, Romig said, is the return of the iconic Blue Room Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Rosemary Clooney, Marlene Dietrich and Sonny and Cher all performed there. The Blue Room, which reopens in late July with a concert by jazz clarinetist Pete Fountain, and the Sazerac Bar, have been Roosevelt landmarks for decades. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Orange County Great Park Announces 'Flights and Sounds of Summer' Dance and Concert Series Jul 28, 2009
True heroes of the swing revival, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy celebrates 100 years of Cab Calloway, the legendary fireball of talent whose goofy "hi-de-hi's" and "ho-de-ho's" in a rich and vibrant baritone brought a much-needed, high-voltage jolt of winning, feel-good energy to a country slogging through tough times. making Cab Calloway a man for our times, too. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Caesar Augustus Expands His Philadelphia Film Studio Empire Jul 22, 2009
They are also in development for the Cab Calloway feature film and documentary and have numerous scripts and TV shows on the way. Caesar Augustus also helped, develop, brand and shoot the first music video for. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Now He's Home Jul 8, 2009
I saw Cab Calloway, who Morris Day tried in vain to capture his spirit, and was astounded, a great voice and presence, but was definitely Black, and never could reach white America. But look at who showed up, not a blacknon gay face in the arena. (Slate)
Click to read:The Man With The Moves Jun 27, 2009
Cab Calloway did a spin that Michael Jackson was to do 50-60 years later. Let's not say that Michael Jackson invented the combination of music and dancing. (CBS News)
Nashville's Hatch Show Print Jun 1, 2009
Hatch also began doing work for African-American jazz and blues stars such as Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith. After Will s death in 1952, the shop struggled to keep up with the fast-changing advertising industry, but was able to hold on to faithful clients in the country music industry, while courting the stars of the developing rock and roll genre. (Suite101.com)
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The band is touring in support of its latest release, "How Big Can You Get?," a tribute to legendary swing artist Cab Calloway. The internationally acclaimed "Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance" visits the Mainstage for the first time on Oct. 24. (St. Joseph Herald-Pallidium, MI)
More of this story» May 19, 2009
""1929 was a good year for the blues," McGuinn said. "That was the year Cab Calloway got ahold of this song called 'Gambler's Blues' and turned it into 'St. James Infirmary. (Dowagiac News, MI)
Picks: Why we chose 'em May 1, 2009
Barker started his career in the 1930s playing with Cab Calloway, Lucky Millinder and Benny Carter. He also is credited with initiating the brass band revival by training a generation of young musicians in the Fairview Baptist Church Marching Band. (WWLTV.com, LA)
Frankie Manning, 94; was dancer, Lindy Hop pioneer Apr 30, 2009
It was an elegant, racially integrated dance hall boasting a marble stairway, crystal chandeliers, and two large stages where the big bands of Count Basie, Chick Webb, and Cab Calloway could duel rhythmically. Some of the Savoy's finest dancers, including Mr. Manning, were recruited to join Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, a dance performance team that appeared in Hollywood movies such as "Hellzapoppin' " (1941). (Boston Globe)
A LOOK AT THE WEEK AHEAD Apr 18, 2009
SHOWCASE :: Erie's Entertainment Web Site. Engelbert Humperdinck to play Chautauqua Institution on Aug. 7; tickets on sale now at www. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Drawing upon a different perspective Mar 24, 2009
Camay Murphy, the daughter of the legendary jazz singer and bandleader Cab Calloway, offered to let him move into the abandoned house in West Baltimore that her father had grown up in, which Mr. Monceaux ultimately bought for $3,000 and a couple of paintings. Once a thriving artistic center that had been home to Thurgood Marshall, Billie Holiday and James Brown, the neighborhood is now filled with public housing, boarded-up buildings and vacant lots. (International Herald Tribune)
What's Up Mar 21, 2009
FIT AS FLEAS: Calypso, Cajun, Cab Calloway. the family-friendly band Dog on Fleas switches up all these styles and more in its up-tempo tunes. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Cancer puts end to jazz musician Harry Wells' roll on drums Mar 3, 2009
After escaping an injury in a bus crash, he left the road and played in New York with musicians including legendary singer Cab Calloway, Marie said. About 11 years ago the couple moved to Delray Beach and Mr. Wells formed a series of bands that played mostly swing and big band music in jazz clubs in Palm Beach County. (The Palm Beach Post)
U Street in Washington D.C. charts path of racial progress Feb 19, 2009
Over the years, America s jazz, soul and blues greats performed: Ella Fitzgerald, Pearl Bailey and Cab Calloway; pianist Jelly Roll Morton; trumpeters Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis; saxophonist John Coltrane and others. So did Aretha Franklin, who ll sing at Obama s inauguration. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
