*You’ve heard “Minnie The Moocher” countless times before, but have you ever stopped to really take in the lyrics? If so, could you understand what Cab Calloway was really saying through all of the ...

On March 3, 1931, Harlem big band leader Cab Calloway recorded “Minnie the Moocher,” the classic tale of chasing opium that made Calloway a national star and put Harlem’s big band sound on the map.

Stever Brodner creates a second sketch of Cab Calloway to Calloway’s classic hit “Minnie The Moocher” for the documentary AMERICAN MASTERS Cab Calloway: Sketches, premiering nationally Monday, ...

Cab Calloway, the swing-era singer, actor and bandleader who soared to national popularity in the ’30s and ’40s on the strength of such hits as “Minnie the Moocher” and “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” has ...

During the swing revival of the 1990s it was singer and bandleader Cab Calloway, and not Benny Goodman or Duke Ellington or Glenn Miller, who provided the biggest influence—with the snazzy suits, hep ...

One hundred years ago, on Christmas Day, African-American jazz singer and band leader Cab Calloway was born. We hear an appreciation from Sara Fishko of WNYC. Now, taking you from the swing of the bat ...

Of all the societal ills one must endure — spam e-mails, Kardashians, twerking — in the old-timey puppet universe of the Pointless Theatre Co., there's no greater danger than jazz. Case in point: ...

Cab Calloway was still in Frederick Douglass High School when a drama critic with The Afro-American newspaper observed “When Broadway taps this boy, goodbye Baltimore.” The year was 1924 and Calloway ...

If ever a cartoon were to summarize the maniacal imagination of JD Wilkes and his Southern Gothic band the Legendary Shack Shakers, it would be a modern-day take on Minnie the Moocher. Cue the new ...