Big Bad Voodoo Daddy will swing into Harrah’s Lake Tahoe Saturday, Nov. 21 to cast its jumpin’ jive spell in the South Shore Room.

No strangers to the Lake Tahoe area, the seven-man big band revival group has wowed fans in Reno, Tahoe and even a Lake Tahoe Music Festival performance on Donner Lake’s West End Beach.

“America’s favorite little band” made the music scene in 1993 energizing the Brown Derby nightclub in Los Angeles with a rug-cutting fusion of jazz, swing, Dixieland and big-band music, continuing to belt out a blend of original dance tunes and longtime ’40s favorites.

BBVD shimmied into the spotlight in 1996 when the film “Swingers” blasted the musical genre to a rejuvenated height of popularity. A cameo appearance with “You and Me and the Bottle Makes Three (Tonight)” and “Go Daddy-O” was a stepping stone to sold-out shows and non-stop touring.

Playing packed clubs is a fraction of Voodoo Daddy’s repertoire. It has performed with nationally acclaimed symphony and pops orchestras, including a show with the U.S. Air Force Orchestra. The band’s music has appeared in more than 60 movies and television shows. “I wanna be just like you” recorded for Disney’s “Jungle Book” is an example of the band’s eclectic history.

Career milestones include appearances in a Super Bowl halftime show, writing theme music for ESPN and network television and performing for three U.S. presidents.

In 2003, the band released of “Save My Soul,” a love letter to the music of New Orleans. Lead vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Scotty Morris, who co-founded Big Bad Voodoo Daddy with drummer Kurt Sodergren, said “I’ve always loved the music that came from there, from Louis Armstrong’s early brass band stuff with King Oliver all the way through Fats Domino and up to the Dirty Dozen Brass Band,” he said on a release by Vanguard Records. “On our earlier albums I’ve hinted at how important this music is to me, but this is the first one where I’ve gone completely full-blast with it.”

On the heels of the album, BBVD began filling the Hollywood Bowl, Walt Disney Hall, Lincoln Center, Chastain Park and Constitution Hall.

“How Big Can You Get? A tribute to Cab Calloway” is the band’s eighth studio album, which brings feel-good energy to a country in the trenches of tough times, much like Calloway’s music did in Depression-era America.

The band’s ensemble playing, arranging and interpretive powers were honed to an all-time high by the excellence of Calloway’s songs, that were recorded in Los Angeles’ Capitol Studios, using Capitol’s vintage microphones and studio equipment.

Trumpeter Glen “The Kid” Marhevka recalled being captivated by Calloway on-stage as a seventh-grader.

“I was 11 years old, and I was blown away,” he said on the Web site BBVD.com. “He had so much energy and so many great musicians. This album concept seemed a perfect fit for us, because of Cab’s visuals, performances and intense energy. As soon as we rehearsed and played these songs live, it was musically challenging and refreshing to all of us.”

“This is the best and most ferocious we’ve ever sounded,” Morris said.

Calloway covers include the BBVD vampy staple “Minnie the Moocher,” and the hilarious “Reefer Man.”

The band busts out another hot single for the holiday season (previously recorded on a BBVD holiday release) on Walt Disney Records’ “25 Songs for Christmas:” Mr. Heatmiser. “I’m Mr. Green Christmas, I’m Mr. Sun. I’m Mr. Heat Blister, I’m Mr. One Hundred and one. They call me Heat Miser, Whatever I touch, Starts to melt in my clutch. I’m too much!”

Catch the blistering zoot-suited blend of horns, upright bass, foot-stompin’ ivory and front man Morris on guitar: The Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, this weekend at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe.