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Cab Calloway was a gloriously outsized manifestation of all that was frantic in the first full flowering of prohibition-era jazz. Dressed with all the flash of a brand new Cadillac, leading a crack band who could swing and sway with both abandon and precision, and spinning demi-monde tales of wild good times complete with illegal party favors, Calloway was a joyous personification of America's id at a time when such celebrations were hardly the stuff of common currency. Calloway's most popular music was recorded during the early to mid-'30s, but when more polished swing sounds supplanted his earlier style, Cab wasn't afraid to move with the times and led a top-notch big band capable of playing more contemporary music while still delivering the free-wheeling punch Calloway's personality demanded. Are You Hep to the Jive? is a great compilation from Columbia's Legacy series that brings together 22 sides Calloway waxed for Vocalion, Okeh, and Columbia between 1939 and 1947, and shows beyond a doubt Cab's muse was still in fine fettle at this point in his career. Calloway's band was filled with first-class talent, and the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Chu Berry, Milt Hinton, and Jonah Jones can be heard on the selections included here, but as great as the band is (and they swing with potent, joyous force throughout this disc), it's Calloway's 100-proof charisma, his unabridged lexicon of jive speak and his top-shelf scatting skills that bring this collection to life, and the fine madness of "Are You All Reet?," "A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But a Bird," "Tarzan of Harlem," and "Who's Yehoodi?" is as satisfying as a cold drink on a warm day. If this isn't quite the definitive Cab Calloway disc, Are You Hep to the Jive? is an excellent overview of his work in the '40s, and it's solid fun from first note to last.
© Mark Deming /TiVo
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Buster Harding, Composer - Buster Harding, Lyricist - Unknown, Producer - Cab Calloway, Performer - Larry Clinton, Composer - Larry Clinton, Lyricist
Originally Released 1940. All rights reserved by SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Jack Palmer, Composer - Jack Palmer, Lyricist - Tyree Glenn, Vocal - Tyree Glenn, Trombone - Jerry Blake, Baritone - Jerry Blake, Clarinet - Lammar Wright, Trumpet - Dizzy Gillespie, Trumpet - Edgar Battle, Arranger - Chu Berry, Tenor Saxophone - Mario Bauza, Trumpet - Andrew Brown, Clarinet - Andrew Brown, Alto Saxophone - Andy Gibson, Arranger - Bennie Payne, Piano - Cozy Cole, Drums - Cab Calloway & His Orchestra, Performer - Unknown, Producer - Buster Harding, Arranger - Benny Carter, Arranger - Don Redman, Arranger - Danny Barker, Guitar - Hilton Jefferson, Clarinet - Hilton Jefferson, Alto Saxophone - Milt Hinton, Bass - Cab Calloway, Vocal - Cab Calloway, Director - Cab Calloway, Lyricist - Cab Calloway, Composer - Walter "Foots" Thomas, Tenor Saxophone - Quentin Jackson, Trombone - Keg Johnson, Trombone
Originally Released 1941. All rights reserved by SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
C. CALLOWAY, Composer - C. CALLOWAY, Lyricist - Unknown, Producer - Cab Calloway, Performer - Hill, Composer - Hill, Lyricist
Originally Released 1946 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Unknown, Producer - Cab Calloway & His Orchestra, Performer - Jeanne Burns, Composer - Jeanne Burns, Lyricist
Originally Released 1948 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Tyree Glenn, Trombone - Tyree Glenn, Vocal - Jerry Blake, Baritone - Jerry Blake, Clarinet - Lammar Wright, Trumpet - Dizzy Gillespie, Trumpet - Edgar Battle, Arranger - Chu Berry, Tenor Saxophone - Mario Bauza, Trumpet - Andrew Brown, Clarinet - Andrew Brown, Alto Saxophone - Buck Ram, Composer - Buck Ram, Lyricist - Andy Gibson, Arranger - Bennie Payne, Piano - Cozy Cole, Drums - Cab Calloway & His Orchestra, Performer - Buster Harding, Arranger - Don Redman, Arranger - Benny Carter, Arranger - Danny Barker, Guitar - Milt Hinton, Bass - Hilton Jefferson, Alto Saxophone - Hilton Jefferson, Clarinet - Cab Calloway, Composer - Cab Calloway, Lyricist - Cab Calloway, Vocal - Cab Calloway, Director - Walter "Foots" Thomas, Tenor Saxophone - Quentin Jackson, Trombone - Keg Johnson, Trombone
Originally Released 1940. All rights reserved by SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Unknown, Producer - Cab Calloway, Composer - Cab Calloway, Lyricist - Cab Calloway & His Orchestra, Performer - Allen Leroy Gibson, Composer - Allen Leroy Gibson, Lyricist
Originally Released 1948 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Gibson, Composer - Gibson, Lyricist - Boyd, Composer - Boyd, Lyricist - Unknown, Producer - Cab Calloway, Performer - Calloway, Composer - Calloway, Lyricist
Originally Released 1941 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Stone, Composer - Stone, Lyricist - Unknown, Producer - Cab Calloway, Performer
Originally Released 1940. All rights reserved by SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Unknown, Producer - Cab Calloway, Performer - M. Gordon, Composer - M. Gordon, Lyricist - H. Owens, Composer - H. Owens, Lyricist
Originally Recorded 1942 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Maxwell, Composer - Maxwell, Lyricist - Unknown, Producer - Cab Calloway, Performer - Myrow, Composer - Myrow, Lyricist
Originally Released 1939 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
A. Gibson, Composer - A. Gibson, Lyricist - C. CALLOWAY, Composer - C. CALLOWAY, Lyricist - Unknown, Producer - Cab Calloway, Performer
1940 Originally Released 1968 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Unknown, Producer - Cab Calloway, Performer - Nacio Herb Brown, Composer - Nacio Herb Brown, Lyricist - Arthur Freed, Composer - Arthur Freed, Lyricist
Originally Recorded 1942 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
B. Harding, Composer - B. Harding, Lyricist - L. Clinton, Composer - L. Clinton, Lyricist - Unknown, Producer - Cab Calloway, Performer
Originally Released 1942 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Yennyson, Composer - Yennyson, Lyricist - Unknown, Producer - Cab Calloway, Performer - Calloway, Composer - Calloway, Lyricist - Hill, Composer - Hill, Lyricist
Originally Recorded 1947 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Unknown, Producer - Cab Calloway, Performer - Willie Dixon, Composer - Willie Dixon, Lyricist
Originally Released 1947 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
C. CALLOWAY, Composer - C. CALLOWAY, Lyricist - Unknown, Producer - Cab Calloway, Performer
Originally Recorded 1947 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Matt Dennis, Composer - Matt Dennis, Lyricist - Billl Seckler, Composer - Billl Seckler, Lyricist - Unknown, Producer - Cab Calloway, Performer
Originally Released 1940 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Unknown, Producer - B. Wallace, Composer - B. Wallace, Lyricist - Cab Calloway, Performer
Originally Released 1940 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Fien, Composer - Fien, Lyricist - Mills, Composer - Mills, Lyricist - Unknown, Producer - Cab Calloway, Performer - Nemo, Composer - Nemo, Lyricist
Originally Released 1939 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
C. CALLOWAY, Composer - C. CALLOWAY, Lyricist - Unknown, Producer - I. Mills, Composer - I. Mills, Lyricist - Cab Calloway & His Orchestra, Performer - C. Gaskill, Composer - C. Gaskill, Lyricist
1931 Originally Released 1942 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
C. CALLOWAY, Composer - C. CALLOWAY, Lyricist - Buck Ram, Composer - Buck Ram, Lyricist - Unknown, Producer - Cab Calloway, Performer - J. Palmer, Composer - J. Palmer, Lyricist
Originally Released 1940 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Harding, Composer - Harding, Lyricist - C. CALLOWAY, Composer - C. CALLOWAY, Lyricist - Unknown, Producer - Cab Calloway, Performer - Palmer, Composer - Palmer, Lyricist
Originally Released 1945 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Albumbeschreibung
Cab Calloway was a gloriously outsized manifestation of all that was frantic in the first full flowering of prohibition-era jazz. Dressed with all the flash of a brand new Cadillac, leading a crack band who could swing and sway with both abandon and precision, and spinning demi-monde tales of wild good times complete with illegal party favors, Calloway was a joyous personification of America's id at a time when such celebrations were hardly the stuff of common currency. Calloway's most popular music was recorded during the early to mid-'30s, but when more polished swing sounds supplanted his earlier style, Cab wasn't afraid to move with the times and led a top-notch big band capable of playing more contemporary music while still delivering the free-wheeling punch Calloway's personality demanded. Are You Hep to the Jive? is a great compilation from Columbia's Legacy series that brings together 22 sides Calloway waxed for Vocalion, Okeh, and Columbia between 1939 and 1947, and shows beyond a doubt Cab's muse was still in fine fettle at this point in his career. Calloway's band was filled with first-class talent, and the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Chu Berry, Milt Hinton, and Jonah Jones can be heard on the selections included here, but as great as the band is (and they swing with potent, joyous force throughout this disc), it's Calloway's 100-proof charisma, his unabridged lexicon of jive speak and his top-shelf scatting skills that bring this collection to life, and the fine madness of "Are You All Reet?," "A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But a Bird," "Tarzan of Harlem," and "Who's Yehoodi?" is as satisfying as a cold drink on a warm day. If this isn't quite the definitive Cab Calloway disc, Are You Hep to the Jive? is an excellent overview of his work in the '40s, and it's solid fun from first note to last.
© Mark Deming /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 22 track(s)
- Total length: 01:04:03
- Main artists: Cab Calloway
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Legacy - Columbia
- Genre: Pop/Rock
(P) 1994 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
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