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 Calloways 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Cab Calloway licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia