Sunset Cafe
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The Sunset Cafe, also known as The Grand Terrace Cafe or simply Grand Terrace, was a jazz club in Chicago, Illinois operating during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. It was one of the most important jazz c
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The Ace Hardware store now occupying the building that used to house the Sunset café
Cab Calloway
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Cabell Calloway III was an American jazz singer, songwriter, bandleader, and actor. He was a regular performer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he became a popular vocalist of the swing era. His ni
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…manager, Joe Glaser, the venue played host to such performers as Louis Armstrong, Adelaide Hall, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Fletcher Henderson, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Johnny Dodds, Bix Beiderbecke, Jimmy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Gene Krupa and Earl "Fatha" Hines and his orchestra's members…
Calloway by William Gottlieb, 1947
Calloway by Carl Van Vechten, 1933
Calloway in New York City c. October 1946
One of Cab Calloway's zoot suits on display in Baltimore's City Hall, October 2007