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 , but the venue featured many of the most popular black entertainers of the era, This episode presents some of those bands and entertainers ! ANDY PREER, DUKE ELLINGTON, CAB CALLOWAY, NICOLAS BROTHERS, ETHEL WATERS and more!