Hep to the Jive: The Cab Calloway Story [30min]

Showman, bandleader, singer and star of musical theatre, Cab Calloway rose from the back streets of Baltimore to lead the highest-paid black swing orchestra of the 1930s. With new interviews from those who knew him, and archive material from Jonah Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Doc Cheatham, Benny Carter, Milt Hinton, and Illinois Jacquet, this documentary discovers why the inventor of the zoot suit and author of the hepster's dictionary was not only a icon in popular entertainment, but one of the 20th century's most significant jazz musicians.