The Cotton Club

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Performers include: Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Adelaide Hall, Jimmie Lunceford, Louis Armstrong. Personnel: Cab Calloway (vocals, cello); Louis Armstrong, Sy Oliver (vocals, trumpet); Ethel Waters, Ivie Anderson, June Richmond, Lena Horne, Maxine Sullivan, Pha Terrell, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, The Nicholas Brothers, Warren Smith , Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (vocals); Floyd Smith (guitar, electric guitar); Talcott Reeves (guitar, banjo); Danny Barker , Dave Barbour, Ted Robinson, Dick McDonough, John "BJ John" Smith, George Elliott, Lee Blair, Al Norris, Joe Young , Trevor Bacon (guitar); Morris White , Fred Guy (banjo); Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Harry Hoffman, Joe Venuti, Lou Kosloff, Walter Edelstein (violin); Walter Thomas (flute, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Andrew Brown (clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Johnny Hodges (clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone); Arville Harris, Edward Inge (clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone); Edmond Hall, John Harrington, Harry Carney, Earl Caruthers (clarinet, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone); Rupert Cole, Jerry Blake, Jimmy Dorsey, Russell Procope, Rudy Powell (clarinet, alto saxophone); Larry Binyon, Joe "Cornbread" Thomas , Rudy Jackson, Barney Bigard (clarinet, tenor saxophone); Neely Plumb (clarinet, baritone saxophone); Freddy Gardner (clarinet); Otto Hardwick (soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone); John Williams & the Tick Tocks (alto saxophone, baritone saxophone); Laforest Dent, Billy Bowan, Wayne E. Songer, Hilton Jefferson, Les Robinson (alto saxophone); Cecil Scott (tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone); Dick Wilson , Bobby Sands , Jack Stacey, Bingie Madison, Illinois Jacquet, Chuck Barry, Joe Garland, Stafford Simon, Teddy Hill, Babe Russin (tenor saxophone); Ernest Purce, Andy Kirk & His Clouds of Joy (baritone saxophone); Sterling Bose, Cootie Williams, Clyde Hurley, Ovie Alston, Dizzy Gillespie, Edwin Swayzee, Earl Thomson, Clarence Trice, Frankie Newton, Bunny Bergian, Bernard Flood, Freddy Webster, Harry Lawson , Harold Baker, Henry "Red" Allen, Langston Curl, Lammar Wright, Jr., Albert Snaer, Jake "Vernon" Porter, Archie Johnson, Eddie Tompkins, Bill Dillard, Sylvester Lewis, Mario Bauza, Nelson Bryant, Reuben Reeves, Shad Collins, Sidney DeParis, Arthur Whetsol, Tommy Stevenson , Shelton Hemphill, Louis Metcalf, Shirley Clay, Freddy Jenkins, Bubber Miley (trumpet); Tyree Glenn (trombone, vibraphone); George Stevenson , Joe Britton, De Priest Wheeler, Dicky Wells, Lawrence D. Brown, Fernando Arbello, Edward Morant, Fred Robinson , George Washington , Russell Bowles, Harry White , Henry Wells, J.C. Higginbotham, Ted Donnelly, Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton, Keg Johnson, Randy Miller, Benny Morton, Claude Jones (trombone); Henry Turner, Bob Ysaguirre (tuba); Claude Hopkins, Claude Thornhill, Clyde Hart, Duke Ellington, Edwin Wilcox, Horace Henderson, Sam Allen, Luis Russell, Mary Lou Williams, Benny Payne (piano); Jimmy Crawford , Manzie Johnson (vibraphone, drums); O'Neill Spencer, Cozy Cole, Leroy Maxey, Max Abrams , Panama Francis, Pete Jacobs, Big Sid Catlett, Sonny Greer, Ben Thigpen, Bill Beason, Stan King, Chauncey Morehouse (drums). Recording information: Camden, NJ (10/26/1927-11/21/1944); Chicago, IL (10/26/1927-11/21/1944); London, England (10/26/1927-11/21/1944); Los Angeles, CA (10/26/1927-11/21/1944); New York, NY (10/26/1927-11/21/1944). Director: Cab Calloway. Arrangers: Duke Ellington; Edwin Wilcox; Horace Henderson. Living Era's Cotton Club album opens with Irving Mills introducing Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orchestra in a contrived "Cotton Club" setting. In a moment of supremely clueless artificial camaraderie, Mills, sounding like a diminutive gangster, refers to Ellington as "Dukie." What transpires next is a parade of performers who were essential participants in the musical nightlife of New York City during the late '20s and to be continued...