Forgotten? Maybe you’re right. But Cab Calloway was a mighty performer, a vortex through which so much flowed into American culture, musician, singer, dancer, massively influential bandleader in the swing era and beyond into modern jazz, pop, r and b, soul, hip hop, movie star, radio star, and the resonations are still there if you want to track them. I could give massive chunks of googled material but who wants to plough through that? Easy enough to find for those interested. A smart, snappy, hip character…