The Cotton Club (soundtrack)

The Cotton Club
Soundtrack album by John Barry
Released	10 December 1984 (1984-12-10) [1]
Studio	A&R Recording, Clinton Recording
Genre	Jazz, dixieland, big band
Length	42:58
Label	Geffen
Producer	John Barry

The Cotton Club is the soundtrack to the movie of the same name. The album won the Grammy Award for Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album in 1986. ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Mooche"	Duke Ellington, Irving Mills	3:29
2.	"Cotton Club Stomp #2"	Ellington, Mills, Mitchell Parish	2:40
3.	"Drop Me Off in Harlem"	Ellington, Nick Kenny	3:03
4.	"Creole Love Call"	Ellington	3:01
5.	"Ring Dem Bells"	Ellington, Mills	2:46
6.	"East St. Louis Toodle-Oo"	Ellington, Bubber Miley	3:20
7.	"Truckin'"	Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler	2:00
8.	"Ill Wind"	Harold Arlen, Koehler	2:17
9.	"Cotton Club Stomp #1"	Ellington, Harry Carney, John Hodges	2:49
10.	"Mood Indigo"	Ellington, Mills, Barney Bigard	3:34
11.	"Minnie the Moocher"	Cab Calloway, Mills	3:07
12.	"Copper Colored Gal"	J. Fred Coots, Benny Davis	1:15
13.	"Dixie Kidnaps Vera"	Barry	2:37
14.	"The Depression Hits/Best Beats Sandman"	Barry	2:42
15.	"Daybreak Express Medley"	Barry	3:43

Charts

Chart (1985)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [6]	68
U.S. Billboard 200	93

Personnel

• John Barry – conductor
• Bob Wilber – conductor, alto and soprano saxophone, clarinet
• Frank Wess – alto, soprano, and baritone saxophone, clarinet
• Chuck Wilson – alto and soprano saxophone, clarinet
• Lawrence Feldman – alto and soprano saxophone, clarinet
• Joe Temperley – alto and baritone saxophone, bass clarinet
• Dave Brown – trumpet, vocals
• Marky Markowitz – trumpet
• Randy Sandke – trumpet
• Lew Soloff – trumpet
• Dan Barrett – trombone, valve trombone
• Joel Helleny – trombone
• Britt Woodman – trombone
• Tony Price – tuba
• Bob Stewart – tuba
• Mark Shane – piano
• John Goldsby – bass
• Mike Peters – guitar, banjo
• Chuck Riggs – drums
• Brian Brake – drums
• Dave Samuels, Danny Druckman, Gordon Gottlieb, Ronnie Zito – percussion
• Priscilla Baskerville - vocalist on "Creole Love Call" ^[7]

References

1. "advertisement" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 96, no. 50. New York, NY, USA: Billboard Publications. 8 December 1984. p. 2. ISSN   0006-2510. Archived from the original on 21 January 2021. Retrieved 9 April 2024. Full digital recording available December 10 on Geffen Records and Cassettes
2. "The Cotton Club - John Barry | Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
3. Barrett, Dan (1 June 2020). "Recording the Cotton Club Soundtrack, Part One". The Syncopated Times. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
4. "John Barry: The Man Who Knew the Score". Vanity Fair. 8 January 2009. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
5. directorsseries (19 May 2017). "Francis Ford Coppola's "The Cotton Club" (1984)". THE DIRECTORS SERIES. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
6. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 283. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.
7. "John Barry - The Cotton Club (Original Motion Picture Sound Track)". Discogs. 1984. Retrieved 13 April 2017.