Singer and bandleader Cab Calloway performing with his orchestra in 1932. | The Jazz Estate

Legendary jazz singer and bandleader Cabell "Cab" Calloway III was known for his energetic stage presence (see below! ) and "scat" singing. Calloway led one of the most popular big bands, “Cab Calloway and his Orchestra,” featuring such performers as trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and saxophonists Ben Webster. By the late 1930s, Cab's band was one of the top grossing acts in jazz. History has it, that Cab Calloway learned how to scat from legendary jazz musician Louis Armstrong, whom he had met as a

92 years ago today (and all week) the legendary Cab Calloway was performing live on the stage of the Loew's Jersey. 78 years later, he was seen again at the Loew's, this time on screen in his show-stopping performance in "The Blues Brothers". By the time he played the Loew's in 1932, the 25 year old Calloway had fused Jazz and the Blues with scatt singing to become one of the best known band leaders and vocalists of the Big Band era. His signature song, "Minnie the Moocher", with what is arguabl