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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.
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.
Cabell Calloway III (December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazz singer and bandleader.He was a regular performer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, where he became a popular vocalist of the swing era.
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]
1st edition (aka 27th edition) of Cotton Club Parade [9] Opened mid-September 1936 At the new Cotton Club at Broadway and 48th Street Produced by Dan Healy Book, lyrics, and music by Benny Davis and J. Fred Coots Directed by Clarence Robinson Featuring Cab Calloway and His Orchestra Production and dances by Clarence Robinson [13]
After a period of touring, in 1934 the band accepted a booking at the Harlem nightclub The Cotton Club for their revue "Cotton Club Parade" starring Adelaide Hall. [7] [8] The Cotton Club had already featured Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway, who won their first widespread fame from their inventive shows for the Cotton Club's all-white patrons ...
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
Williams rose to prominence as a member of Duke Ellington's orchestra when the band was playing at the Cotton Club, with which he first performed from 1929 to 1940. He also recorded his own sessions during this time, both freelance and with other Ellington sidemen.