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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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The Cotton Club is located downstairs from the Tabernacle at 152 Luckie St.
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Sam Hayden,
Gothic Nightclub Owner
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It was played again two nights later at the Cotton Club in Atlanta but it was hardly ever played following that night.
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Rob Bruff,
Nightclub Bouncer
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Once brought his mouthpiece to the Cotton Club in Harlem and sat in with Duke Ellington.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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This encouraged him to move to New York, where he concentrated on writing scores for the Cotton Club revues in Harlem.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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Harlem boasts the Apollo Theater and Cotton Club, where some of the city's best Jazz, Blues and modern R&B music can be heard.
During his four year tenure (1927-31) at Harlem s Cotton Club, Ellington developed his so-called jungle sound , designed originally to make his band appear as exotic, primitive, and African as possible to the affluent whites who ventured uptown in droves to the Cotton Club for cultural titillation.
Originally a waiter at the Cotton Club, he eventually became the Ellington band factotum and Duke s valet.
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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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Jean Mercier Harlem's world-renowned Cotton Club featured the likes of Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Lena Horne, Adelaide Hall and Ethel Waters.
She was Frankie Manning's partner in the Cotton Club show and was in Whitey's Lindy Hoppers 1937 European tour.
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Jake Farley,
Truck Driver
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It was with Ford whom she made the deeper connection, taking a trip with him up to Harlem's Cotton Club to see Cab Calloway.
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Jordan Jones,
Rapper
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The Cotton Club, The Savoy Ballroom, the Lindy Hop (original swing dance) How did the creation of Harlem relate to the idea of Black culture?
That took us straight to Harlem town beside the Cotton Club.
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