Students from across the city are learning all about acting during the Carver Community Culture Center's Summer Theatre ...

Some souls expertly embrace the music of life. Others ardently amplify it. When the curtain falls, both deserve an ovation.

Ray Charles, John Lee Hooker (with Pinetop Perkins ), Cab Calloway, and James Brown all get memorable musical moments, but the zenith is reached when the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, takes center ...

Blondshell, Allman Betts Band, Bettye LaVette among area concert highlights [Seven in Seven] Puerto Rican indie pop duo Buscabulla will perform on Tuesday at The Foundry. (Quique Cabanillas) ...

Discover 8 Cab Calloway songs that highlight his groundbreaking role in jazz and swing. From “Minnie the Moocher” to “Blues in the Night,” explore the music that defined his legacy and influenced ...

Jazz legend Cab Calloway starred in “Porgy and Bess” in 1964 and returned to Starlight in 1980 for the “Bubbling Brown Sugar” musical revue. File photo ...

Cabell Cab Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader. Calloway was a master of energetic scat ...

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 ...

Perhaps the best-known proponent is Cab Calloway, the famous Cotton Club band leader who conducted with a baton and sang in front of Duke Ellington’s orchestra, as well as his own.

Calloway began his career in 1927 playing drums for a band led by Clarence Williams. He quickly gained popularity for his distinct vocal stylings, often characterized by scat-singing, yodeling ...

‘We wanted the actual musicians from the band. We wanted the sound of some cool guys who don’t really know how to sing, kind of a Cab Calloway thing.” ...

Cab Calloway and his band perform an absolutely swinging version of Jumpin’ Jive while the Nicholas Brothers perform a spectacular tap dance routine. Do give it a watch, it will put a smile on your ...