Cab Calloway Archives

Jazz at 100 / The Jazz Messenger – The Porgy and Bess Show

Dec 11th, 2017 | By Russell Perry

Tags: Archie Shepp, Arkestra, Ben Webster, Bill Evans, Bill Frisell, Billie Holiday, Branford Marsalis, Cab Calloway, Coleman Hawkins, DuBose Heyward, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Free Bridge Quintet, George Gershwin, Gerald Wilson, Gil Evans, Herbie Hancock, Ira Gershwin, Jimmy Smith, Joe Henderson, John Coltrane, Johnny Hartman, Joni Mitchell, Kurt Elling, Louis Armstrong, Mal Waldron, Mel Torme, Miles Davis, New Vision Sax Ensemble, Nina Simone, Patricia Barber, Porgy & Bess, Sammy Davis Jr., Sonny Rollins, Sun Ra

Cab Calloway as Sportin’ Life In the mid-1930’s, George Gershwin acquired the rights to the play Porgy by DuBose Heyward, based on his own novel of 1925. Gershwin’s great American opera, Porgy and Bess debuted in 1935 with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward. For some period of time, the themes of domestic violence, […]
Jazz at 100 Hour 23: Birth of Bebop (1939 – 1945)

Aug 4th, 2017 | By Russell Perry

Tags: Cab Calloway, Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Jay McShann, Lionel Hampton, Lucky Millinder, Thelonious Monk

Charlie Parker – Dizzy Gillespie “By the early 1940s … a new approach to small-combo jazz playing was developing, characterized by a more flexible approach to rhythm, a more aggressive pursuit of instrumental virtuosity, and an increasingly adventurous harmonic language.” – Scott Deveaux “Because its loose, improvisatory format offers an obvious point of contrast to […]

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