The Cotton Club was THEE night club in New York City's HARLEM . It was located on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1936, then briefly in the midtown  Theater District until 1940. The club operated during prohibition. Black people initially could not patronize the Cotton Club as guests ,...

Plenty of JOHNNY DODDS, BENNY NAWAHI, RUDY NEWMAN & HIS ORCH, UNCLE DAVE MACON, "BOTTLE IT" WIGGINS, BUEL KAZEE, PINE TOP SMITH, CAB CALLOWAY, VALAIDA SNOW and a lovely 1901 banjo solo on OLD FOLKS AT HOME played by the master VESS OSSMAN! and more