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 Crescendo (music venue) The Crescendo (music venue) The Crescendo was a Hollywood music venue on Sunset Boulevard 1954-1964 run by Gene Norman of GNP Crescendo Records. Performers at the Crescendo included Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Louie Armstrong, Harry James, Stan Kenton, Perez Prado, Machito, Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, June Christy, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Sam Cooke, Anita O'Day, Nina Simone, Mel Torme, Oscar Brown, Jr., Billy Eckstine, Herb Alpert, Tijuana Brass, Gerry Mulligan, Chico Hamilton, Art Tatum, Eddie Cano, Cal Tjader, jazz drummer Shelly Manne, Herbie Mann, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Jordan, and Joey Dee & the Starliters and others of the biggest names