Cotton Club Cotton Club The Cotton Club was a New York City nightclub located in Harlem on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1935, then briefly in the midtown Theater District from 1936 to 1940. The club operated most notably during the United States' era of Prohibition. The club was a whites-only establishment, but featured many of the most popular black entertainers of the era, including musicians Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford, Chick Webb, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Fats Waller, Willie Bryant; vocalists Adelaide Hall, Ethel Waters, Cab Calloway, Bessie Smith, Aida Ward, Avon Long, the Dandridge Sisters, the
The New York City Jazz Record The New York City Jazz Record The New York City Jazz Record is a monthly New York City based publication which contains features, reviews and concert announcements regarding jazz music. It is available in print form as well as online. It was originally launched in May 2002 by co-founders Laurence Donohue-Greene (Managing Editor) and Andrey Henkin (Editorial Director/Production Manager) under the name "AllAboutJazz-New York”. The gazette’s name change switched permanently to The New York City Jazz Record as of March 2011. Joe Lovano says of "The New York City Jazz Record": "Simply the hippest journal about jazz in New York