Pluckin’ the Bass by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
First released: 1939, Length: 2:441939-08-30, mx. WM-1067-A: Master take
Creators (17)
Arranger
Conductor
- Cab Calloway (30 Aug 1939)
Orchestra
- Cab Calloway and His Orchestra (30 Aug 1939)
Instruments
- Benny Payne (30 Aug 1939) piano
- Chauncey Haughton (30 Aug 1939) reeds
- Claude Jones (30 Aug 1939) trombone
- Cozy Cole (30 Aug 1939) drums (drum set)
- Danny Barker (30 Aug 1939) guitar
- DePriest Wheeler (30 Aug 1939) trombone
- Dizzy Gillespie (30 Aug 1939) trumpet
- Keg Johnson (30 Aug 1939) trombone
- Lammar Wright (30 Aug 1939) trumpet
- Leon “Chu” Berry (30 Aug 1939) tenor saxophone
- Mario Bauzá (30 Aug 1939) trumpet
- Milt Hinton (30 Aug 1939) double bass
- Walter "Foots" Thomas (30 Aug 1939) tenor saxophone
Vocals
- Cab Calloway (30 Aug 1939)
Releases containing this recording (12)
Official
Album - Compilation
- Cruisin’ With Cab 1988 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra Topaz Jazz
- The Chronological Classics: Cab Calloway and His Orchestra: 1939‐1940 1991 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
- An Introduction to Cab Calloway: His Best Recordings 1929‐1940 1994 Cab Calloway
- Blowing Up a Breeze 1995 Leon “Chu” Berry
- Jazz Greats, Volume 28: Dizzy Gillespie: Early Years 1997 Dizzy Gillespie
- The Chronological Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, Volume 2: 1935‐1940 10 Jun 2003 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra
- The Chu and Dizzy Years 2003 Cab Calloway
- How Low Can You Go?: Anthology of the String Bass (1925–1941) 28 Nov 2006 Various Artists
- Classic Chu Berry Columbia and Victor Sessions 2007 Leon “Chu” Berry
- The Encyclopedia of Jazz, Part 4/5: Bebop Story – A Musical Revolution That Radically Changed the Road of Jazz 24 Oct 2008 Various Artists
- Bass Masters 10 Feb 2011 Various Artists