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  2. Cotton Club - Wikipedia

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    Adelaide Hall, star of the Cotton Club Cab Calloway was another of the original Cotton Club performers. Ethel Waters starred at the Cotton Club Lena Horne as a young girl was featured at the Cotton Club. Dorothy Dandridge, entertainer at the Cotton Club. The Cotton Club was a 20th-century nightclub in New York City.

  3. The Missourians (band) - Wikipedia

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    Andrew Preer took leadership of the group in 1925, which performed at the Cotton Club until 1927 under the name Andrew Preer's Cotton Club Orchestra. [2] In 1927 the group became the accompanying band for Ethel Waters on tour, and changed its name to The Missourians, since Duke Ellington's band had become known as the Cotton Club Orchestra. [1]

  4. Keith Nichols - Wikipedia

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    Keith Nichols' Cotton Club Gang and Janice Day with Guy Barker I Like To Do Things For You (1991) (CD, Stomp Off) [3] Keith Nichols and the Cotton Club Orchestra Syncopated Jamboree (1991) (CD, Stomp Off CD 1242) Henderson Stomp (1993) (CD, Stomp Off CD 1234) [3] Harlem's Arabian Nights (1997) (CD, Stomp Off CD 130) [3] Keith Nichols' Little Devils

  5. Duke Ellington - Wikipedia

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    In 1929, the Cotton Club Orchestra appeared on stage for several months in Florenz Ziegfeld's Show Girl, along with vaudeville stars Jimmy Durante, Eddie Foy, Jr., Ruby Keeler, and with music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Gus Kahn. Will Vodery, Ziegfeld's musical supervisor, recommended Ellington for the show. [34]

  6. Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center in SE Gainesville to ...

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    Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center will host dance party to raise funds. It will be held 7-10 p.m. Friday at the museum at 837 SE Seventh Ave.

  7. Cab Calloway - Wikipedia

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    The Cotton Club of Miami featured a troupe of 48 people, including singer Sallie Blair, George Kirby, Abbey Lincoln, and the dance troupe of Norma Miller. The success of the shows led to the Cotton Club Revue of 1957 which had stops at the Royal Nevada Hotel in Las Vegas, the Theatre Under The Sky in Central Park, Town Casino in Buffalo.

  8. Tabernacle (concert hall) - Wikipedia

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    Cotton Club reopened Friday, February 11, 2000, with a show by Staind. [38] Cotton Club operated in the lower level of the Tabernacle until November 20, 2004. The last performer was Helmet. [39] The Tabernacle continues as a major concert venue in Atlanta. Conan O'Brien hosted a week of Conan shows at the Tabernacle from April 1 to 4, 2013. [40]

  9. The Cab Calloway Orchestra - Wikipedia

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    When the Cotton Club closed in 1940, Calloway and his band went on a tour of the United States. [2] In 1941 Calloway fired Dizzy Gillespie from his orchestra after an onstage fracas. Calloway wrongly accused Gillespie of throwing a spitball; in the ensuing altercation Gillespie stabbed Calloway in the leg with a small knife.