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.

*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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

How did the New York Racing Association choose the name Cab Calloway for one of the divisions of its Saratoga stakes for New York stallion-sired horses? How dat be that those dicty cats knocked that ...

SoundCheck is in the midst of “Hi-De-Ho,” English writer Alyn Shipton’s biography of Cab Calloway, coming from Oxford University Press in October. The book — the first full-length bio of the High ...

This 1981 documentary by Manny Pittson follows Cab Calloway around Harlem as he reminisces about the famous musicians and entertainers that passed through the neighborhood in the 1930s and 1940s.

“Minnie the Moocher” is a 1932 cartoon starring two of Fleischer Studios’ most famous characters, Betty Boop and Bimbo. It heavily features the music of Cab Calloway, including the eponymous song, as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...