Cab Calloway News

Milt Hinton has long been recognized as one of the most vital and ubiquitous figures in jazz, having worked with the likes of Jabbo Smith and Cab Calloway and appearing as a guest musician on more than 1,700 recordings.

Our view: A new Negro league baseball museum could revitalize Pennsylvania Ave. November 20, 2009 B altimore, long a center of African-American culture on the East Coast, is a natural home for the region's first Negro league baseball museum, and from a historical perspective, the Pennsylvania Avenue corridor is the perfect place to put it.

"Put me in the spotlight, give me two or three thousand people and a decent group of men behind me with instruments, and you can't give me more." - Cab Calloway Born December 25, 1907 in Rochester, New York, Cabell Calloway III's luck was established even before birth.

The Hope Art Center will host its premiere program celebrating jazz singer Rick Evans' lifetime career from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Nov.

"I grew up in Southern California, and Cab Calloway was performing at Disneyland of all places," Marhevka said.

Q: Dear Jack, where was Crystal Palace located on Farish Street? Thanks. - Victoria Perkins of Jackson A: Crystal Palace was located in the historic Farish Street district.

Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary Stephen Calt Paperback; 320 pages ISBN: 978-0-252-007660-2 Hardback: 320 pages ISBN: 978-0-252-03347-6 University of Illinois Press 2009 Unlike most dictionaries of jazz and blues language, of which bandleader Cab Calloway 's Hepsters Dictionary and the glossary included in clarinetist Mezz Mezzrow 's ...

Good morning. Today is the 294th day of the year. It is the birth anniversary of jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie.

It wouldn't be Montreal's jazz festival if local big-band legend Vic Vogel wasn't on the scene, once again last night in a packed Theatre Maisonneuve, in a format larded with big-sounding arrangements and oratorical crooning.

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy will heat up the Trump Marina Saturday night as they showcase 100 years of Cab Calloway's music included in their newest CD, "How Big Can You Get?" The band was originally formed in Ventura, Ca., in 1989 by leader Scotty Morris, and concentrated on the swing music of the 1930s and '50s. So it seemed only natural to continue ...

Dreamland Ballroom A group wants to bring back the history and the party in downtown Little Rock.

This isna t your great-grandparentsa swinging vocal jazz. Oh wait, yes it is. [IN A SENTIMENTAL MOOD] "Opium-fueled" probably isn't the first phrase that would pop into most listeners' minds when asked to describe the Stolen Sweets' new album, Sleepytime in Chinatown.

Alphabetical Listing Home : CD reviews : Jazz : Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - How Big Can You Get? : The Music of Cab Calloway - 'How Big Can You Get?' is the eighth Big Bad Voodoo Daddy album.

Big-band music is back in a big way. A Big Bad way, as a matter of fact. Celebrated neo-swing band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy made the Touhill Performing Arts Center jump, jive and wail Friday night, filling the theater with memorable big-band tunes.

John Prine may have set the standard for pot songs in American music with his sardonic "Illegal Smile," but that snowball picked up considerable speed as it rolled downhill.

Feeling done up after a week of teaching? I recommend a dose of the Nicholas Brothers.

New vehicle targets speeders Speeders beware: Today marks the first day Santa Fe police will deploy a new sport utility vehicle that will issue speeding tickets by mail.

Montgomery's Black Film Festival made its debut in 2003 with one screening of one film.

Art&Seek presents This Week in Texas Music History . Every week, wea ll spotlight a different moment and the musician who made it.

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 ...