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You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.
Cab Calloway
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Cab Calloway
Age: 86 †
Born: 1907
Born: December 25
Died: 1994
Died: November 18
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Cabell Calloway III
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