The final CD of the Classic label's complete reissuance of Cab Calloway's 1930-47 recordings also includes the last recordings of Cab with his regularly working big band. This 1998 CD starts out with a couple of superior but originally rejected numbers ("What's Buzzin', Cousin?" and "Chant of the Jungle") from 1942, followed by a couple of rare V-disc numbers from 1944. Otherwise, the material dates from 1945 or 1947 with just two selections from 1946. During this era, the still-popular Calloway was finding it increasingly difficult to keep his orchestra together, as were all the other bandleaders, but the quality of his music remained fairly high, even touched slightly by bop in some of the arranged passages. Some of the vocals are a bit silly, particularly "Dawn Time and "Afternoon Moon," but there are also a few near-classic jive numbers. Highlights include the snobbish "A Blue Serge Suit With a Belt in the Back," "Don't Falter at the Altar" (released here for the first time), "The Jungle King" (one of two numbers done with a septet called the Cab-Jivers), "Give Me Twenty Nickels for a Dollar," "Two Blocks Down, Turn to the Left," "The Calloway Boogie," "Everybody Eats When They Come To My House," and the somewhat bizarre "The San Francisco Fan." Although Calloway dominates the music, there are scattered and consistently worthwhile solos by trumpeter Jonah Jones and tenors Ike Quebec and Sam "The Man" Taylor. Virtually all of these recordings are obscure, making the release of this music quite noteworthy both for swing collectors and Calloway fans. Recommended, as are all of the CDs in Classics' perfectly done Cab Calloway series. Scott Yanow
Tracklist :
1 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– What's Buzzin', Cousin? 2:38
Mack Gordon / Harry Owens
Vocals – The Cabaliers
2 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– Chant Of The Jungle 3:18
Nacio Herb Brown / Arthur Freed
3 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– I'm Making Believe 1:50
Vocals – Dotty Salters
Mack Gordon / James V. Monaco
4 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– Foo A Little Ballyhoo 3:01
Cab Calloway / Buster Harding / Jack Palmer
5 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– Let's Take The Long Way Home 2:36
Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer
6 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– Foo A Little Bally-hoo 3:01
Cab Calloway / Buster Harding / Jack Palmer
7 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– All At Once 2:50
Ira Gershwin / Kurt Weill
8 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– Dawn Time 3:01
Eddie DeLange / Buster Harding
9 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– If This Isn't Love 2:57
Cab Calloway
10 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– A Blue Serge Suit With A Belt In The Back 2:26
John Fortis / Max Spickol
11 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– Here I Go Just Dreamin' Away 2:47
Al J. Neiburg / William Henri Woode
12 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– The Honeydripper 2:55
Joe Liggins
13 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– Afternoon Moon 3:09
Eddie DeLange / Duke Ellington
14 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– Hey Now, Hey Now 2:55
Cab Calloway / Stanley Hill
15 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– I Got A Gal Named Nettie 3:06
Cab Calloway
16 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– Hi-De-Ho Man 2:59
Cab Calloway / Buster Harding / Jack Palmer
17 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– Necessity 2:52
E.Y. "Yip" Harburg / Burton Lane
18 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– Oh Grandpa 2:59
Cab Calloway / Stanley Hill / Bill Tennyson
19 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– Don't Falter At The Alter 2:40
Cab Calloway
20 Cab Calloway And His Cab-Jivers– Give Me Twenty Nickels For A Dollar 3:01
Wolf / Brandt
21 Cab Calloway And His Cab-Jivers– The Jungle King 3:14
Mort Dixon
22 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– Two Blocks Down, Turn To The Left 3:10
Teddy Powell / Alex Rogers
23 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– San Francisco Fan 3:17
Sammy Mysels / Dick Sanford
24 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– The Calloway Boogie 3:00
Cab Calloway
25 Cab Calloway And His Orchestra– Everybody Eats When They Come To My House 2:43
Jeanne Burns / Cab Calloway
Credits
Alto Saxophone – Hilton Jefferson
Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone – Andrew Brown (tracks: 1, 2), Charles Frazier (tracks: 16 to 19, 22 to 25), Rudy Powell (tracks: 7 to 15)
Baritone Saxophone – Greely Walton (tracks: 3 to 6)
Bass – Milt Hinton
Clarinet, Alto Saxophone – Alfred Gibson (tracks: 2 to 15), Jerry Blake (tracks: 1)
Directed By – Cab Calloway
Drums – Buford Oliver (tracks: 12, 13), Cozy Cole (tracks: 1, 2, 14, 15), J.C. Heard (tracks: 3 to 11), Panama Francis (tracks: 16 to 25)
Guitar – Danny Barker (tracks: 1 to 13), John Smith (tracks: 14 to 25)
Piano – Bennie Payne (tracks: 1, 2, 14, 15), Dave Rivera (tracks: 3 to 13, 16 to 25)
Tenor Saxophone – Bob Dorsey (tracks: 7 to 15), Ike Quebec (tracks: 3 to 15), Irving "Skinny" Brown (tracks: 2 to 6), Sam Taylor (tracks: 16 to 25), Ted McRae (tracks: 1), Walter "Foots" Thomas (tracks: 1, 2)
Trombone – Earl Hardy (tracks: 14 to 19, 22 to 25), Fred Robinson (tracks: 3 to 13), James Buxton (2) (tracks: 16 to 19, 22 to 25), John Haughton (tracks: 9 to 11), Keg Johnson (tracks: 1 to 8, 12 to 19, 22 to 25), Quentin Jackson (tracks: 1 to 19, 22 to 25)
Trombone, Vibraphone – Tyree Glenn (tracks: 1 to 15)
Trumpet – Johnny Letman (tracks: 16 to 19, 22 to 25), Jonah Jones, Lammar Wright (tracks: 1, 2, 16 to 19, 22 to 25), Paul Webster (tracks: 3 to 13, 16 to 19,to 25), Roger Jones (tracks: 5 to 15), Russell Smith (tracks: 1 to 15), Shad Collins (tracks: 1 to 15)
Vocals – Cab Calloway (tracks: 1, 2, 4 to 25)
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