Cab Calloway Quotes

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People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones—ordinary musicians from down South who carried the music to the corners of the country, to little speakeasies in little towns where they played honky-tonk music for $5 a night. Or less. Sometimes they played for drinks, and the sheer love of it.

Cab Calloway

Cab Calloway

Cab Calloway

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Born: December 25, 1907

Died: November 18, 1994 (aged 86)

Bio: Cabell "Cab" Calloway III was an African-American jazz singer and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, where he was a regular performer.

Known for:

The Blues Brothers (1980)
Hi-De-Ho (1947)
Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho (1934)
Snow-White (1933)
The Cincinnati Kid (1965)

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