Cotton Club (Original Soundtrack)

Release Date:08/28/2015;Notes:Limited 180gm audiophile vinyl LP with insert and PVC protection sleeve. The Cotton Club is a 1984 drama, centered around the famous Harlem Jazz club of the 1930's. The story follows the people that visited the club, those that ran it, and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous. Combining song and dance performances with drama (both on and off screen), Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club looks back to the 1920s peak of the legendary Harlem nightclub where only blacks performed and only whites could sit in the audience. Coppola creates a panorama of love, crime and entertainment centered on the club. The cast exists, among others, out of Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane and Lonette McKee. John Barry's efforts at supervising, scoring and recreating the energetic jive and wail of the era very nearly carry the day. His adaptations of standards by Ellington and Cab Calloway are reverent yet energetic, infused by original music that weaved it into an accessible and rewarding tapestry of time, place and art.;Track List:1. The Mooche;2. Cotton Club Stomp #2;3. Drop Me Off in Harlem;4. Creole Love Call;5. Ring Dem Bells;6. East St. Louis Toodle-O;7. Truckin';8. Ill Wind;9. Cotton Club Stomp #1;10. Mood Indigo;11. Minnie the Moocher;12. Copper Colored Gal;13. Dixie Kidnaps Vera;14. The Depression Hits / Best Beats Sandman;15. Daybreak Express Medley