Cotton Club

Night Clubs

The Extras: Pick up a souvenir: The Cotton Club also owns a gospel recording label and sells merchandise on-site.

On the Menu: Think Southern classics like barbecued veal ribs, Creole tomatoes and black-eyed peas.

Back when Harlem was the capital of New York nightlife, when clubs were rigidly segregated and the performers were black and the audience white, the Cotton Club, run by notorious gangsters, was the pinnacle of the jazz scene. The joint was already jumping with the Ellington Band, which later moved on and was replaced by the heppest cat of all, Cab Calloway. "Let me tell you ‘bout the Jumpin’...

In Short
Reopened in 1978 to emulate the Probihition era jazz hall that started it all, this historic spot still exudes Old-World glamour. Despite its having seen the likes of Duke...

Have dinner while watching a blues and jazz show at Cotton Club. Call our jazz supper club in New York, NY, for reservations.

The Cotton Club was a New York City night club located first in the Harlem neighborhood on 142nd St & Lenox Ave from 1923 to 1935 and then for a brief period from 1936 to 1940 in the midtown Theater District. The club operated most notably during America's Prohibition Era.The club was a whites-only establishment even though it featured many of the best black entertainers and jazz musicians of...