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Article: Death claims Cab Calloway, flamboyant bandleader and music legend
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- Michigan Chronicle
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- November 29, 1994
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Jr. Coleman, Kenneth
Michigan Chronicle
11-29-1994
Death claims Cab Calloway, flamboyant bandleader and music legend.
Look up the word "style" in any dictionary - any hip dictionary, that is - and you're likely to find the name "Cab Calloway." Or at least you should be able to do that.
The legendary performer (bandleader, singer, saxophonist, drummer) died Friday, Nov. 19 at the age of 86. He had suffered a stroke in June. Calloway was the epitome of style. "Pizazz" and "panache" too.
Among Calloway's many attributes was the fact that although he was the fact that although he was at his peak in the 1930s and '40s - the big hand era - he made a point of continuing to be highly visible long ...
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... ... 12-22-2007 Happy Birthday to Cab Calloway Host: ANDREA SEABROOK Time 19 ... birth of the exuberant entertainer Cab Calloway. The occasion has reporter Sara ... music) FISHKO: It's probably Cab Calloway and his band. He had just an amazing ...
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