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
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong collaborations of the above titles are also sometimes known as "Porgy & Bess". On May 20, 1997, the compilation album "The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve" first came out. "The Complete Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong Studio Recorded Duets" (also known as just "The Complete Studio Recorded Duets") was first released on March 31, 2008. It saw a re-release in 2011. Despite the latter's title, that two-CD album only featured a selection of thirty-five particular tracks by the duo, lifting just four of the pieces on "Porgy and Bess". "Ella and Louis" has picked up praise from a