A Portrait of Cab Calloway

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Minnie the Moocher
  3:13
• 2
  Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
  3:02
• 3
  Kicking the Gong Around
  3:11
• 4
  Trickeration
  2:52
• 5
  Aw You Dawg
  2:49
• 6
  Strictly Cullud Affair
  3:05
• 7
  Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day
  3:13
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Dinah
  3:10
• 9
  Angeline
  2:53
• 10
  Reefer Man
  2:59
• 11
  You Gotta H-De-Ho
  3:10
  5.0 ★
• 12
  Hot Toddy
  2:41
• 13
  Beale Street Mamma
  3:10
• 14
  The Man From Harlem
  3:08
• 15
  Eadie Was a Lady
  2:56
  5.0 ★
• 16
  The Scat Song
  2:47
• 17
  Wake Up and Live
  2:28
• 18
  Every Day's a Holiday
  2:24
• 19
  Jubilee
  2:30
• 20
  Scrontch
  2:53
• 21
  Mr Toscanini, Swing for Minnie
  2:52
• 22
  The Congo Conga
  3:02
• 23
  F.D.R. Jones
  2:21
• 24
  Afraid of Love
  2:31
• CD 2
• 1
  The Jumpin' Jive
  2:51
• 2
  Tweet-Twee Tweet
  2:46
• 3
  Tarzan of Harlem
  2:49
• 4
  Boog It
  2:57
• 5
  Pickin' the Cabbage
  2:48
• 6
  Who's Yehoodi?
  3:11
• 7
  Come on With the Come On
  2:56
• 8
  Papa's in Bed With His Britches On
  2:33
• 9
  Are You Hep to the Jive?
  2:50
• 10
  Goin' Conga
  2:51
• 11
  Hot Air
  2:54
• 12
  Lonesome Nights
  3:00
• 13
  A Chicken Ain't Nothin' but a Bird
  2:54
• 14
  Make Yourself at Home
  2:51
• 15
  The Worker's Train
  3:17
• 16
  Are You All Reet?
  3:04
• 17
  Willow Weep for Me
  3:23
• 18
  Hep Cat's Love Song
  3:05
• 19
  Special Delivery
  2:58
• 20
  St James Infirmary
  3:19
• 21
  Take the 'A' Train
  3:04
  5.0 ★
• 22
  I Want to Rock
  2:49
• 23
  Foo a Little Bally-Hoo
  3:03
• 24
  Hey Now, Hey Now
  2:55

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Release credits

• Al Morgan
  double bass [8-9, 11-15]
• Andrew Brown
  reeds [2.4-5, 1.2-8, 1.17, 1.20-24], saxophone [1.9, 1.11-15, 2.4, 2.7, 2.11, 2.13, 2.15-16, 2.22]
• Andy Gibson
  arranger [7]
• Arville Harris
  reeds [5-9, 11-15]
• Ben Webster
  tenor saxophone [17]
• Benny Payne
  piano [2.2, 2.4-5, 2.7, 2.9, 2.11, 2.13, 2.15-16, 2.22, 1.2-9, 1.11-15, 1.17, 1.20-24]
• Cab Calloway
  conductor [2, 4-5, 7, 11, 13, 15-16], lead vocals [2.5, 1.3], vocal [2.2-5, 2.7, 2.9, 2.11, 2.13, 2.15-16, 2.22, 1.2-7, 1.9, 1.11-15, 1.17, 1.20-24]
• Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
  performing orchestra [2, 4-5, 7, 11, 13, 15-16]
• Chappie Willett
  arranger [2]
• Chauncey Haughton
  reeds [1.20-24, 2.2-3]
• Claude Jones
  trombone [1.17, 1.20-24, 2.2-3]
• Cozy Cole
  drums (drum set) [1.24, 2.2-5, 2.7, 2.9, 2.11, 2.13, 2.15-16, 2.22]
• Danny Barker
  guitar [1.20-24, 2.2-5, 2.7, 2.9, 2.11, 2.13, 2.15-16, 2.22]
• DePriest Wheeler
  trombone [1.2-9, 1.11-15, 1.17, 1.20-24, 2.2-3]
• Dizzy Gillespie
  trumpet [2-5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15-16]
• Doc Cheatham
  trumpet [8-9, 11-15]
• Eddie Barefield
  reeds [8-9, 11-15]
• Edwin Swayze
  trumpet [2-9, 11-15]
• Garvin Bushell
  reeds [17]
• Harry White
  trombone [2-9, 11-15]
• Hilton Jefferson
  alto saxophone [4, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15-16, 22], reeds [4-5]
• Irving Randolph
  trumpet [17, 20-24]
• Jerry Blake
  reeds [4, 4-5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15-16, 22]
• Jimmy Smith
  double bass [2-7]
• Jonah Jones
  trumpet [22]
• Keg Johnson
  trombone [1.17, 1.20-24, 2.2-5, 2.7, 2.9, 2.11, 2.13, 2.15-16, 2.22]
• Lammar Wright
  trumpet [1.2-9, 1.11-15, 1.17, 1.20-24, 2.2-5, 2.7, 2.9, 2.11, 2.13, 2.15-16, 2.22]
• Leon “Chu” Berry
  tenor saxophone [1.20-24, 2.2-5, 2.7, 2.9, 2.11, 2.13, 2.15-16]
• Leroy Maxey
  drums (drum set) [2-9, 11-15, 17, 20-23]
• Mario Bauzá
  trumpet [2-5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15-16]
• Milt Hinton
  double bass [1.17, 1.20-24, 2.2-5, 2.7, 2.9, 2.11, 2.13, 2.15-16, 2.22]
• Morris White
  banjo [2-8], guitar [9, 11-15, 17]
• Quentin Jackson
  trombone [4-5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15-16, 22]
• Reuben Reeves
  trumpet [2-7]
• Russell Smith
  trumpet [22]
• Shad Collins
  trumpet [1.17, 1.20-24, 2.22]
• Teddy McRae
  tenor saxophone [22]
• Tyree Glenn
  trombone [4-5, 7, 9]
• Walter "Foots" Thomas
  tenor saxophone [2.2-5, 2.7, 2.9, 2.11, 2.13, 2.15-16, 2.22, 1.17, 1.20-24], woodwind [2-9, 11-15]
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Issues

• A
  A Portrait of Cab Calloway

  2x CD
  26 December 1998