https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaShvVW1w5U
" Ill Wind"-Dramatic Cotton Club Number. Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler created calssic songs for Harlem's Cotton Club Revues in the 1930's.
Celebrated black performers like Ethel Waters, Lena Horne, The Nicholas Brothers, Maxine Sullivan plus band leadersl like Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway. Black artists could perform there but were not accepted as patrons. It was an exotic venue quite different from downtown night spots andwas frequented by all number of celebrities, politicians and gangsters who owned the club.
A paramount movie called " The Cotton Club" captured the excitement and danger of the times and LOnette McKee provides a sensual and compelling performance of the ill wind that often blew through and outside the Cotton Club.
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