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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. [3]
These revues helped launch the careers of many artists, including Andy Preer, who led the Cotton Club's first house band in 1923. Duke Ellington's orchestra was the ...
The Cotton Club Boys were African American chorus line ... (house band), Ethel Waters, ... his sister Winnie Johnson (1918 - 1980) [26] was a member of the Cotton ...
The Cotton Club is a 1984 American musical crime drama film co-written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and based on James Haskins' 1977 book of the same name. The story centers on the Cotton Club , a 1930s Harlem jazz club.
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.
The Missourians were an American jazz band active in the 1920s, who performed at the Cotton Club in New York City and eventually became the backing band for Cab Calloway. [1] The Missourians were formed by Wilson Robinson in the early 1920s under the name Wilson Robinson's Syncopators, [1] or Wilson Robinson's Bostonians.
Cotton Club Boys (Cab Calloway's band), a nickname for Cab Calloway's band when it was the Cotton Club's house band – before the chorus line of the same name was established; Cotton Club boys (4-H), part of 4-H (an agricultural oriented youth organization) that began around 1912 in the U.S.; i.e., in North America, the southern version of 4-H ...
He was a member of the house band at Harlem's Cotton Club starting in 1925. This group eventually came to be known as the Missourians under bandleader Andrew Preer; by the end of the 1920s, Cab Calloway had taken leadership of it. [1] Brown played in Calloway's band until 1945, including on many recording sessions and a tour of Europe in 1934. [2]