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During its heyday, it served as a chic meeting spot in the heart of Harlem, featuring regular "Celebrity Nights" on Sundays, at which celebrities such as Jimmy Durante, George Gershwin, Al Jolson, Mae West, Irving Berlin, Eddie Cantor, Moss Hart, New York mayor Jimmy Walker and other luminaries would appear.Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson opened the Club De Luxe at 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem in 1920.

While the club featured many of the greatest African American entertainers of the era, such as Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Bessie Smith, Cab Calloway, The Nicholas Brothers, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday and Ethel Waters, it generally denied admission to blacks.

The Cotton Club was a famous night club in New York City that operated during Prohibition that included jazz music.

Dorothy Dandridge performed there while still one of The Dandridge Sisters, while Coleman Hawkins and Don Redman played there as part of Henderson's band.

Tap dancers Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Sammy Davis Jr.(as part of the Will Mastin Trio), and the Nicholas Brothers starred there as well.The club also drew from white popular culture of the day.

Ellington was expected to write "jungle music" for an audience of whites.Nonetheless, the club also helped launch the careers of Henderson, who led the first band to play there in 1923, and Ellington, whose orchestra was the house band there from 1927 to 1931.

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