Jimmy Mordecai was in the cast of "Cotton Land" that performed at The Cotton Club which was located in what city?
Jimmy Mordecai Jimmy Mordecai also known as James Mordecai was a Harlem-based jazz tap dancer in the 1920s and 1930s. James Mordecai was born in New York City in 1905. His father was Samuel Mordecai and his mother Sara Cunningham immigrated into these United States from British West Indies in 1901 through Cuba. He was in the cast of a 1924 touring show called "Cotton Land," with music by James P. Johnson. He was a member of a popular dance trio, Wells, Mordecai and Taylor (with Dickie Wells and Ernest Taylor -- the trio also was known as the Hot Feet Boys and the Three Klassy Kids), with whom he performed at the Cotton Club in 1930 with a Duke Ellington revue called "Brown Sugar (Sweet But Unrefined)." In that revue, he danced with Cora LaRedd, a renowned tap dancer active at the time.
Cottontown, Tennessee Cottontown is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Sumner County, Tennessee, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 367. It is located along State Route 25 northwest of neighboring Gallatin. The area has its own Post Office. The United States Postal Service ZIP code for the Cottontown area is 37048.