Local Memory:
A History of Music in Austin
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Images from Cotton Club
Daily Texan
, February 24, 1942
Artists
Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra
Venues
Cotton Club
Appears in…
“East Austin Centers of Swing: The Royal Auditorium and the Cotton Club, 817 E. 11th” from Athens on the Colorado: The Dominance of the Universities, 1929-1946
Venues
Cotton Club
Daily Texan
(February 24, 1942)
Appears in…
“East Austin Centers of Swing: The Royal Auditorium and the Cotton Club, 817 E. 11th” from Athens on the Colorado: The Dominance of the Universities, 1929-1946
Artists
Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra
Venues
Cotton Club
The earliest documentation of Johnny Simmons's orchestra, the “Blue Devils,” at a 1938 dance at the Cotton Club.
Daily Texan
March 8, 1938, 2.
Appears in…
“ The Forgotten Swing and Rhythm & Blues of Johnny Simmons” from The Wild Side of Life: The Rise of the Honky Tonks, 1940-1950
Artists
Johnnie Simmons and His Orchestra
Venues
Cotton Club