Uploaded on Jan 29, 2009
The Missourians played venues in the midwest in the early 1920s. By 1925, they had moved to New York to play at the Cotton Club under the name Andy Preer and the Cotton Club Orchestra.
The Missourians were a talented group but never tried to be a sophisticated New York band. After Preer died in 1927, the Cotton Club house orchestra gig was taken over by Duke Ellington
The Missourians gained their lasting fame as Cab Calloway's band. Cabell Calloway III had worked with the Missourians as early as 1928 and bought the band in 1930.
He changed the name of the band to Cab Calloway and His Orchestra and they returned to the Cotton Club as the house band once again.
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Missourians - The Cotton Club Orchestra-1929 - YouTube
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