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ARTIST
TITLE
Cotton Club And Beyond
FORMAT
2CD

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D 20010CD D 20010CD
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RELEASE DATE
1/17/2020

40 top tunes of great artists catching the vibe of the legendary New York venue in Harlem. The Cotton Club was the popular New York City nightclub from 1923 to 1940. It was located on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue (1923 to 1935), then briefly in midtown Theater District (1935- 1940). The club operated during the United States' era of Prohibition and Jim Crow era racial segregation. Black People could not initially patronize the Cotton Club, but the venue featured many of the most popular black entertainers of the era. Features Billie Holiday, Chick Webb, Fletcher Henderson, Bill Evans, Jimmie Lunceford, Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw, Dexter Gordon, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Judy Garland, Oscar Peterson, The Mills Brothers, Earl Hines, Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Eckstine, Dinah Washington, Sonny Rollins, Charles Mingus, Etta James, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Louis Armstrong, LaVern Baker, Lena Horne, Mel Torme, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughan, Eartha Kitt, Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker, Lionel Hampton, Miles Davis, Jackie McLean, Jimmy Smith, Sister Rosetta Tharpe & Lucky Millinder, Clifford Brown, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Donald Byrd, and Freddie Hubbard.