Cab Calloway

Cab Calloway comes to Cumberland

Appalachian History (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008

Open Thread — Best. Tappers. Ever. Edition

feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008

Post what you like, for as long as you like, with whomever you like. Self-linking is encouraged. (If that’s too tiny to watch — which it probably is, unless you’re browsing with Google Chrome — then you may want to go here to watch it .) Cab Calloway isn’t easy to upstage, but the Nicholas Brothers sure did it. The staircase sequence at the end of the dance was done in a single take (or so Fayard Nicholas...

Cab Calloway and Greenburgh

Westchester Real Estate Blog (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008

Cab Calloway lived in Greenburgh, New York on Knollwood Road. His daughter and family are trying to repurchase the familyhome and turn it into a museum. In case you don't know who Cab Calloway is here is a segment from...

Lionel Hampton And Quincy Jones

Rifftides (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008

The September Jazz Times has my rather long review of Mosaic's box of Lionel Hampton's small-band recordings from the late 1930s and early forties. The five CDs contain a sizeable percentage of the best combo music of the period. From...

Sammy Cohen, Metro Columnist and Jazz Society Founder

San Jose Inside (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008

Two giants of San Jose’s jazz world died in late August within a week of each other. One was tall and always immaculately dressed, a Bellarmine-educated pianist, raised in the Santa Clara Valley and married into one of its wealthiest and most prominent families. The other was round and simply dressed, a working drummer who kept time for musicians like Cab Calloway and Mike Bloomfield in the hardscrabble...

Unfettered fowl makes healthy feast

atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008

Cab Calloway said, "A chicken ain't nothing but a bird," but he was wrong. Although a fine musician, my guess is he never tasted pasture-raised chicken. Odds are that, like most Canadians, you haven't either.

AllMusic New Release Newsletter: 09/02/2008

The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008

Young Jeezy - The Recession On his third official album The Recession, superstar rapper and former trapstar Young Jeezy flirts with the idea of a politically motivated full-length. There’s the title cut, the Barack Obama tribute titled “My President”, plus “Circulate” and its great line about oil prices, but social issues take a backseat when Jeezy [...]

Lonnie Johnson-”Winnie the Wailer”

Passion of the Weiss (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008

Since my sickness sent me scrambling towards sad Southern Blues, I’ve been fairly obsessed. My latest discovery has been peripatetic bluesman and alleged Robert Johnson inspiration, Lonnie Johnson. Specifically, his “Winnie the Wailer” a 1932 cut heavily reminiscent of Cab Calloway’s famous “Minnie the Moocher.” Despite the obvious similarity, it remains a wonderful song, [...]

Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Fabulousness: The Budget Fashionista 5th Anniversary

Clutch Magazine (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008

Kathryn Finney, The Budget Fashionista, is the authority on “being fabulous for less.” The debt-ridden…

Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)

Skuds' Sister's Brother (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008

Watching all those old clips of Booker T and the MGs on YouTube gave me an itch to watch the Blues Brothers film to see Cropper and Dunn in action again. This evening I sort of scratched that itch and watched Blues Brothers 2000 instead. The film comes in for a lot of criticism because its [...]

A Love Song to New York City

B.L. Ochman (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008

Sunset at the River Flicks showing of "The Blues Brothers" on Hudson River Park's Pier 54 at 14th Street in Manhattan was another great reason to love New York. The Blues Brothers, Jake and Elwood Blues with Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Cab Calloway and Ray Charles, still mad crazy after all these years. Seen with good friends and pleasant strangers, on a perfect late summer night, after a magnificent...

Owners will remake El Torreon for concerts, other events

The Kansas City Business Journal (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008

The historic El Torreon building, which rocked as the Cowtown Ballroom in the 1970s, is being restored as a venue for concerts, dances and other community and private events, a representative of the building’s new ownership group said Wednesday.

The End of Howard Theatre Blues

DCmud - The Metro Urban Diary (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008

Since it first closed in 1970, the Howard Theatre's fate has been as unpredictable as Cab Calloway's scat. After being named a historic landmark in 1973, the theater opened and closed several times, its stage finally going dark in the early 1980's, seemingly for good. Now, after years of work by Howard Theatre Restoration, Inc. , a nonprofit organization, along with the District of Columbia, private...

An Interview with Koko Dozo: Bringing a Little Madness - and Lots of Teamwork - into the Mix

Guest Music Bloggers (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008

By Mark Kirby The rock and roll super group - a group made of musicians who are well-known for being in other groups, or, solo stars who band together into one entity, like the comic book heroes X-men or The Avengers - has a long history in rock music. The super group Blind Faith was comprised [...]

TAGG, COA A WINNING TEAM

New York Post (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008

SARATOGA SPRINGS - Big day for Barclay Tagg and Eibar Coa with NY-breds on turf. They took eighth race with 9-2 Nehantic Kat, then came right back in ninth, Cab Calloway division of NY Stallion Series, with 5-2 Doc N Roll; daily double paid $36.20...