Precious days I spend with you – Cab Calloway 1986 br br The opening tune of an high energy concert in Antibes, France by 80 year old Cab Calloway and his big band. br br Cab Calloway (1907–1994) was a famous American jazz singer and bandleader. Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s. Calloway's Orchestra featured performers that included trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie and Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham, saxophonists Ben Webster and Leon "Chu" Berry, New Orleans guitar ace Danny Barker, and bassist Milt Hinton.