Missourians - The Cotton Club Orchestra-1929

The Missourians played venues in the midwest in the early 1020s. By 1925, they had moved to New York to play at the Cotton Club under the name Andy Preer and the Cotton Club Orchestra. The Missourians were a talented group but never tried to be a sophisticated New York band. After Preer died in 1927, the Cotton Club house orchestra gig was taken over by Duke Ellington

The Missourians gained their lasting fame as Cab Calloway's band. Cabell Calloway III had worked with the Missourians as early as 1928 and bought the band in 1930. He changed the name of the band to Cab Calloway and His Orchestra and they returned to the Cotton Club as the house band once again.

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Music

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• Cab
• Calloway
• Missourians
• jazz
• Cotton
• Club
• 1920s
• 1930s
• 78s
• 78RPM

[KrazyKartoonKid]

Today is the 83rd Anniversary of this song!

[preservationhall01]

@KrazyKartoonKid . . .and still jumpin and jivin like a new kid.

[n64wilbert]

@preservationhall01 Did you grew up in the 1920s?

[preservationhall01]

@n64wilbert One generation later-but I got a lot of good first hand information handed down to me.

[n64wilbert]

Funky!!!

[ecapital46]

listen to the interview on the Tube with Cab: "cab calloway day at night" an interview done at CUNY. He tells the whole story of how he came to Harlem from Chicago fronting the band the Alabamians, got booked into a club and having the club burn down the afternoon of opening night. The Alabamians returned to Chicago, but Satchmo got Cab a job singing "Ain't Misbehavin" in a Waller-Razaf revue, so he stayed in NY. He later took over the Missourians and was booked into the Cotton Club

[JCJasion]

As the '30's wore on, under Calloway's leadership, their sound DID become smoother and the level of Jazz played became a lot more advanced until by the cusp of the 1930's going into the 1940's they had one of the most distinctive and ADVANCED sounds among Swing Era bands, sporting such future PROGRESSIVE Jazz greats as trumpeter John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie and bassist Milt "Bags" Hinton

[roybo1930]

Cab was the COOLEST OF THE COOL!

[busessuck1]

always liked it when they show off in the middle of cab calloway's songs, excellent sound

[TexasFunkBlues]

For the record, Andrew Preer WAS NOT white!!! He was IN FACT Black!!! This is a post from a family member out of Chicago, IL. that has documentation to prove it!!!