The Best of Cab Calloway

Tracklist

• 1
  Aw, You Dog!
  2:56
• 2
  The Ghost of Smokey Joe
  2:48
• 3
  Tarzan of Harlem
  2:50
• 4
  Reefer Man
  3:01
• 5
  I Ain't Getting Nowhere Fast
  2:49
• 6
  I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues
  3:17
• 7
  F.D.R. Jones
  2:22
• 8
  Queen Isabella
  2:46
• 9
  Swing, Swing, Swing
  2:44
• 10
  Black Rhythm
  3:14
• 11
  Jiveformation, Please
  2:32
• 12
  Mister Paganini - Swing for Minnie
  2:53
• 13
  Pickin the Cabbale
  2:48
• 14
  Beale Street Mama
  3:11
• 15
  Do You Wanna Jump, Children?
  2:26
• 16
  Kicking the Gong Around
  3:11
• 17
  Hi-De-Ho Romeo
  2:52
• 18
  Eadie Was a Lady
  2:57
  5.0 ★
• 19
  (Hep-Hep!) The Jumpin' Jive
  2:51
• 20
  Minnie the Moocher
  3:14

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Are You Hep to the Jive?

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Best of Big Bands: Cab Calloway featuring Chu Berry

Best of Big Bands: Cab Calloway featuring Chu Berry 1993

Best of Big Bands

Best of Big Bands 1990

The Cab Calloway Story

The Cab Calloway Story 1989

Some of These Days

Some of These Days 2025

Release credits

• Al Morgan
  double bass [6, 14, 18]
• Andrew Brown
  reeds [1-2, 7-10, 12-13, 15-17], saxophone [6, 14, 18]
• Arville Harris
  reeds [1, 6, 10, 14, 18]
• Ben Webster
  tenor saxophone [5, 9]
• Benny Carter
  alto saxophone [5], arranger [5]
• Benny Payne
  piano [1-2, 6-10, 12-18]
• Cab Calloway
  conductor [13], lead vocals [13, 16], vocal [1-3, 6-7, 9-18]
• Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
  performing orchestra [13]
• Charlie Christian
  electric guitar [5]
• Chauncey Haughton
  reeds [2-3, 7, 11-12, 15]
• Claude Jones
  trombone [2-3, 7-9, 11-12, 15, 17]
• Clyde Hart
  piano [5]
• Coleman Hawkins
  tenor saxophone [5]
• Cozy Cole
  drums (drum set) [2-3, 5, 11, 13]
• Danny Barker
  guitar [2-3, 7, 11-13, 15]
• DePriest Wheeler
  trombone [1-3, 6-12, 14-18]
• Dizzy Gillespie
  trumpet [3, 5, 11, 13]
• Doc Cheatham
  trumpet [6, 14, 18]
• Eddie Barefield
  reeds [6, 14, 18]
• Edwin Swayze
  trumpet [1, 6, 14, 16, 18]
• Garvin Bushell
  reeds [8-9, 17]
• Harry White
  trombone [1, 6, 10, 14, 16, 18]
• Hilton Jefferson
  reeds [13]
• Irving Randolph
  trumpet [2, 7-9, 12, 15, 17]
• Jerry Blake
  reeds [13]
• Jimmy Smith
  double bass [1, 16]
• Keg Johnson
  trombone [2-3, 7-9, 11-13, 15, 17]
• Lammar Wright
  trumpet [1-3, 6-18]
• Leon “Chu” Berry
  tenor saxophone [2-3, 5, 7-8, 11-13, 15, 17]
• Leroy Maxey
  drums (drum set) [1, 6-10, 12, 14-18]
• Lionel Hampton
  vibraphone [5]
• Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra
  performing orchestra [5]
• Mario Bauzá
  trumpet [3, 11, 13]
• Milt Hinton
  double bass [2-3, 5, 7-9, 11-13, 15, 17]
• Morris White
  banjo [1, 10, 16], guitar [6, 8-9, 14, 17-18]
• Quentin Jackson
  trombone [13]
• Reuben Reeves
  trumpet [1, 10, 16]
• Shad Collins
  trumpet [2, 7-9, 12, 15, 17]
• Tyree Glenn
  trombone [13]
• Walter "Foots" Thomas
  tenor saxophone [2-3, 7-9, 11-13, 15, 17], woodwind [1, 6, 14, 16, 18]
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