Cotton Club
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The Cotton Club was a 20th-century nightclub in New York City. It was located on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1936, then briefly in the midtown Theater District until 1940. The club oper
Duke Ellington was one of the original Cotton Club orchestra leaders.
Adelaide Hall, star of the Cotton Club
Cab Calloway was another of the original Cotton Club performers.
Ethel Waters starred at the Cotton Club
Duke Ellington
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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life. Music critic Ralph J. Gleason called him "Ame
Cotton Club
…not patronize the Cotton Club, but the venue featured many of the most popular black entertainers of the era, including musicians Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford, Chick Webb, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Fats Waller, Willie Bryant; vocalists Adelaide Hall, Ethel Waters, Cab Calloway, Bessie…
British pressing of "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" (1927)
Ellington at the Hurricane Club, Broadway & West 51st Street, New York City, May 1943