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Jive Singers: Fats Waller, Willie Dixon, Sun Ra, Cab Calloway, Harry Gibson

Jive Singers: Fats Waller, Willie Dixon, Sun Ra, Cab Calloway, Harry Gibson


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Fats Waller, Willie Dixon, Sun Ra, Cab Calloway, Harry Gibson, Slim Gaillard. Excerpt: Cab Calloway 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. Biography Early years Cab Calloway was born in a middle-class family in Rochester, New York, on Christmas in 1907 and lived there until 1918, on Sycamore Street. He was later raised in Baltimore, Maryland . His father, Cabell Calloway II, was a lawyer and his mother, Martha Eulalia Reed, was a teacher and church organist. When Cab was young, he would enjoy singing in church. His parents recognized their son's musical talent and he began private voice lessons in 1922. He continued to study music and voice throughout his formal schooling. Despite his parents' and vocal teachers' disapproval of jazz, Calloway began frequenting and eventually performing in many of Baltimore's jazz clubs, where he was mentored by drummer Chick Webb and pianist Johnny Jones. After graduating from Frederick Douglass High School Calloway joined his older sister, Blanche, in a touring production of the popular black musical revue Plantation Days. (Blanche Calloway herself would become an accomplished bandleader before her brother did, and he would often credit his inspiration to enter show business to her.) Calloway attended Lincoln University...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155707266
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 66
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Weight: 109 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1155707265
  • Publisher Date: 06 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Fats Waller, Willie Dixon, Sun Ra, Cab Calloway, Harry Gibson
  • Width: 229 mm


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