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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 Lena Horne as a young girl was featured at the Cotton Club. Dorothy Dandridge, entertainer at the Cotton Club
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.
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]
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 Cotton Club is the soundtrack to the movie of the same name. The album won the Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 1986. [2] [3 ...
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]
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
"I've Got the World on a String" is a 1932 popular jazz song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics written by Ted Koehler. It was written for the twenty-first edition of the Cotton Club series which opened on October 23, 1932, the first of the Cotton Club Parades.