ALBANY -- Louis Armstrong's trumpet, Jim Brown's rushing trophy from Syracuse and a score from Rochester native Cab Calloway are among items on display at the state Capitol to commemorate Black History Month. Gov. Andrew Cuomo commissioned Robert Harris,

hi de hi de hi de hi!!!… …as popular as this Minnie the Moocher refrain still is and as often as it is evoked by even today’s most popular stylists, it should not eclipse another classic piece, equally evocative of the illustrious and inimitable Cab Call

There he is: on-stage alone, elderly, confronted with a young audience waiting for other artists. To keep them from getting antsy, he turns to the orchestra and leads them into an old song. As he performs Minnie The Moocher, everything is transformed: th

MPT to premiere “American Masters Cab Calloway: Sketches” Monday, February 27, 2012: and, The 4th Annual Valentine Oscar Lounge & Party event by PR guru Doris Bergman a spectacular success Red Grant (center) at his red carpeted Showtime premiere event in

Wherein the great singer, dancer and bandleader explains an animated map of Harlem in the '30s and '40s. Dig the club called The Yeah Man. This charming video clip is a part of an upcoming PBS documentaryAmerican Masters series. The whole film mixes trad

Lou Marini (saxophone), Steve Cropper (guitar), and Donald “Duck” Dunn (bass) tell a story about a time when Cab Calloway sang “Summertime” from Porgy and Bess while walking to their respective elevators. Cab Calloway: Sketches premieres nationally Monda

In this clip, Cab Calloway gives a tour of historic Harlem Jazz clubs with an animated map. Swing by the Cotton Club, which was home to the Cab Calloway Band, and learn about where the singers and band leaders and dancers went to get the best fried chick

The long list of performers at the 2012 Grammys was as vast, varied and random as putting your entire music collection on shuffle and setting it on stage. The 2012 Grammy performances spanned an exhaustive array of musical genres, making clear that in th

The Grande Prairie Public Library is pleased to offer, for one night only, COTTON CLUB “IN A BOX”, Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 6:00p.m. This event is in honor of Black History Month and the Hazel Crest's Centennial Anniversary! It is free for all ages

Today's edition of Black Voices Black History Quest is based in Baltimore. We came across a bit of a problem when we decided to feature Balitmore. The city is so full of amazing black history museums, landmarks and monuments, we had a hard time deciding

Horn player Gerald Wilson, jazz writer Gary Giddens, and jazz critic/cultural historian Stanley Crouch discuss how Cab’s straight hair, unusual in people of African American descent, and his ability to toss it while performing, played into his persona an

Adam Garcia likens Lee to Cab Calloway and says he never needs to worry about Lee going out of time or missing beats. Kimberley tells Lee that “it was like a history lesson in tap…my question then lies in ‘is it worthy of a quarter of a million pounds?’”

After the success of WrestleMania I, Vince McMahon was now faced with the daunting challenge of following up his masterpiece, with yet another fantastic supercard. A little over a year later on April 7, 1986, McMahon and the WWF put on WrestleMania 2. In

Quick: Name the Giants' all-time leading receiver. No Giants receiver made the Pro Bowl between Homer Jones in 1968 and Steve Smith in 2009 (that’s right: Toomer never made it). Three of the team’s top five all-time leaders in receiving yards are running

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NEW YORK (AP) - David Alan Grier has a gentle message for anyone who is getting all hot and bothered thinking that he's helping ruin an American masterpiece. "Relax. Let it go," he says. "We're not killing it. We're just doing our version." The actor and

NEW YORK - David Alan Grier has a gentle message for anyone who is getting all hot and bothered thinking that he's helping ruin an American masterpiece. Let it go," he says. We're just doing our version.&quot

Stever Brodner creates a second sketch of Cab Calloway to Calloway’s classic hit “Minnie The Moocher” for the documentary AMERICAN MANSTER Cab Calloway: Sketches, premiering nationally Monday, February 27 at 9 p.m. (check local listings). Brodner’s compl

Watch Steve Brodner create one of the sketches used in the documentary AMERICAN MANSTER Cab Calloway: Sketches to the soundtrack of Cab Calloway’s “Everybody Eats When They Come To My House.”Cab Calloway: Sketches premiering nationally Monday, February 2