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The Cotton Club was a New York City nightclub from 1923 to 1940. It was located on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue (1923–1936), then briefly in the midtown Theater District (1936–1940). [ 1 ] The club operated during the United States' era of Prohibition and Jim Crow era racial segregation.
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]
West end. NY 9A West Side Highway. East end. Cul-de-sac east of First Avenue. 52nd Street is a 1.9-mile-long (3.1 km) one-way street traveling west to east across Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States. A short section of it was known as the city's center of jazz performance from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Budget. $58 million. Box office. $25.9 million [1] 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 Harlem jazz club in the 1930s. The film stars Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, and ...
Musical artist. Cabell Calloway III(December 25, 1907 – November 18, 1994) was an American jazzsinger and bandleader. He was a regular performer at the Cotton Clubin Harlem, where he became a popular vocalist of the swingera. His niche of mixing jazz and vaudevillewon him acclaim during a career that spanned over 65 years.
The Savoy Ballroom was a large ballroom for music and public dancing located at 596 Lenox Avenue, between 140th and 141st Streets in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. [1] Lenox Avenue was the main thoroughfare through upper Harlem. Poet Langston Hughes calls it the "Heartbeat of Harlem" in Juke Box Love Song, and he set his ...
Life. Boisseau was born on July 22, 1911. [1] At the age of nine she won her first dance contest doing the Charleston. [1] Her first professional engagement was in a Broadway musical revue Black Birds of 1928 where she started out as chorus girl. [2] Boisseau was married to Frederick D. Ramseur, who died in 2000.
The Missourians (band) 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.