Ned Elliot Williams in Cotton Club - 1927
from Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It, page 235:
I first heard the Ellington band in 1927, which was the year it made its debut at the famous Cotton Club in Harlem…
I can't say that I was too much impressed with the Ellington crew on that visit. It definitely didn't have the form and the polish that it acquired later, of course. I was bewildered by the elaborate floor revue at the Cotton Club, even then comparable to the top Broadway musicals, and fascinated by the dispatch and lack of commotion with which a belligerent drunken guest was subdued and evicted by the club attaches.
cite as
Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro, Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It (London, 1992), p. 235. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1435236225449 accessed: 4 November, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composersJazz band music | performed by Duke Ellington & His Orchestra |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 1927 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by 5011Henning on Thu, 25 Jun 2015 13:43:45 +0100
Approved on Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:12:03 +0100