The next Bainbridge Swing Dance is set for May 3 and will feature Hepcat Revival. The dance takes place on the first Saturday of every month at Family Life Center, 16349 Chillicothe Road, with doors ...

jump blues band, playing toe-tapping music the likes of Louis Prima, Big Joe Turner, Cab Calloway and Louis Jordan, as well as some of their own composition, the release stated. Experienced and ...

The 58th edition of Worldfest kicks off at the River Oaks Theatre April 24 with the movie "Long Shadows," a Western starring ...

I would like to tell you about an old friend of mine who passed away during COVID. His name was Nick, or as I called him, ...

Cab Calloway and his orchestra took over as house band at the club in 1931 and they too; had a long run of success. He was born Cabell Calloway III in Rochester, N.Y. on December 25 th, 1907. He was a ...

Dizzy Gillespie, Cab Calloway, Woody Shaw, Red Rodney ... the Thelonious Monk Institute and University of North Texas’s One O’Clock Lab Band. This innovative project will bring recorded jazz ...

Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, Sarah Vaughan, Louis Jordan, The Ink Spots, the Mills Brothers, Billie Holiday and Charlie Christian. In his teens, he fell in love with Dizzy Gillespie, George Shearing ...

An ex-Army bandsman, he went on to arrange music and play trumpet in Cab Calloway’s orchestra, before becoming JSU’s first band director, in 1948. Davis introduced jazz rhythms and Calloway ...

Sanabria’s Multiverse Big Band has been nominated for nine Grammy Awards ... Bauzá first exposed Gillespie to Afro-Cuban music in 1938 when they were members of Cab Calloway’s orchestra. “They were ...