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Cotton Club

CTL-E-0953 · Venue · club · unspecified

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63rd/Cottage Grove jazz club

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PLACE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PLACE-001:PLACE-038; source research type(s): Jazz club. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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