Bumpin' In Da Club

Everything Thursday in Summer, my friends and I go to The Woodland's night club, and when Mrs. Lewis mentioned The Cotton Club back in the day NO WAYY was I ganna pass it up!

The Cotton Club was in Harlem, New York City baby! No better place to be than there in the 1920s-1930s. The club would have jazz bands playing, such as Louis Armstrona, Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holliday. The majority of the preformers being African American it seems weird to me that they denied entry of black citizens.. Often being called "Jungle Poeple", where "Jungle Music" aka Jazz comes from. However many aritsts began their careers there.

The club closed down several times due to being caught selling alcohol during the Prohibition years. It was also closed down in 1936 due to the riots in Harlem and reopened. But eventually closed down for good in 1940.