Cotton Pickers

Cotton Pickers

Genres: blues, guitar, rockblues

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About Cotton Pickers

There are two bands with this name, blues-rock band called Cotton Pickers from Serbia and another is a jazz band from Detroit USA called McKinney's Cotton Pickers. Cotton Pickers, Serbia The Band was formed in 2004, in Mladenovac, Serbia. The original name of the band was, “Unregistered Feedback”, but that was later changed into COTTON PICKERS, a name that would remain current to this day. In 2006, the band members were forced to put their music on hold for a while, until 2008 when their drummer returned from America , where he had lived for two years. In 2008, the band members started taking their music more seriously and the result was instant success! Continuous playing, devotion and effort brought them numerous awards. After four years of hard work they just have finished their debut album called “SLAUGHTER HOUSE BLUES”. Slaughter house came as an idea, ‘cause “Cotton Pickers”, are using abandoned Slaughterhouse as their rehearsal area. From the very beginning , the Cotton Pickers are: Jovan Stepic-Guitars/Vocals Ivan Stepic-Bass Uros Ugrinovic-Drums McKinney's Cotton Pickers, USA McKinney's Cotton Pickers were an African American jazz band founded in Detroit in 1926 by William McKinney, who expanded his Synco Septet to ten pieces. Cuba Austin took over for McKinney early on drums. In 1927 Don Redman left Fletcher Henderson's orchestra to become the Cotton Pickers' musical director, and he assembled a band which rivalled Henderson's and Duke Ellington's. Aiding Redman with arrangements and rehearsals with the band was the talented trumpeter-arranger John Nesbitt. The line-up in 1928 was Cuba Austin (drums and vocals), Prince Robinson (clarinet, tenor saxophone), George Thomas (clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, vocals; Redman (arranger, clarinet, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, vocals, and leader), Dave Wilborn (banjo, vocals), Todd Rhodes (piano, celeste), Ralph Escudero (tuba), Nesbitt, Claude Jones (trombone), Milton Senior, Langston Curl (trumpet). Between 1927 and 1931, they were one of the most popular African-American bands. Many of their records for Victor were best sellers. In 1931 Redman left to form his own band and was replaced by Benny Carter. The Cotton Pickers disbanded in 1934, unable to make money during the Depression. Manager of the band was Jean Goldkette (who arranged for the group to record "Birmingham Bertha" for him in July 1929, released on Victor under his own name). A New McKinney's Cotton Pickers was organized in the early 1970s by David Hutson, using the original Don Redman arrangements. They recorded several albums and featured original banjoist Dave Wilborn, who was believed to have been the only surviving original member at the time. McKinney's Cotton Pickers' performance of "Milenberg Joys" was used as the theme tune of Robert Parker's 1980s radio series "Jazz Classics in Digital Stereo".

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