McKinney's Cotton Pickers

orchestra · 1922 · Springfield (Ohio)

Orchestra founded in Springfield in 1922 by drummer and showman William McKinney, later based in Detroit and then Harlem. Don Redman was its musical director and arranger, and Benny Carter and Coleman Hawkins played in it.

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Styles

• Harlem: Henderson, Redman, Ellington
• Swing, big bands

Landmark tracks

• Four or Five Times (1928)

Sources

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