Shanghai’s Best Live Blues and Jazz
Neighborhood: Xuhui District
Phone: +86 21 6437 7110
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Cotton Club has the distinction of being the first and the most popular live blues and jazz bar in Shanghai. Buzzing with people, especially on weekends, the raucous bar sees a mix of locals and expatriates. Seats at the T-shaped, dark bar fill up quickly so come early for a prime position. Asian snacks, sandwiches, ice cream and fruit platters are available.
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Reviewed by: Alex from Shanghai, Shanghai, CHN on Aug 24, 2007
Cotton disappointment
The Cotton Club is widely cited as the premier jazz centre in Shanghai. A recent visit to the Club would question that acclaim. The club is well appointed and the service good. Drinks are massively overpriced and there is only an extremely limited range of food/snacks on offer. The music, can best be described as of high-school standard. The group is led by a self indulgent, seriously over miked guitarist and the horns are pedestrian. The drummer is the most proficient member of the group. The music falls roughly within the jazz genre, but is raw and lacks the subtlety and smoothness that characterizes good jazz. Jazz is noted for its high piercing horn solos and mellow, subtle moods. In good jazz the solos blend smoothly with the surrounding music, but at the Cotton Club screeching unsophisticated volume was relied on, with little or no regard to context in the total piece. Piece endings were mundane and managed to detract further from the pieces as a whole. If this is the best that this major city has to offer, then either jazz in China has a long way to go to reach any kind of international standard, or the performance experienced was a seriously off night. Ratings: premises ****, service *****, food and drinks **, music **
Would you recommend this to a friend?
No
Why? / Why Not?
the standard of the music was poor; the drinks prices are excessive and the food/snacks are not up to standard
It's is terrible now!
Cotton Club used to be very good, but when we went there again recently, everything changed. Most of...
Reviewed by:qiyue1975 from on Feb 08 2009
Over-all best for the price
It's true Cotton Club is the primary jazz and blues club in Shanghai and it is probably the most...
Reviewed by:Crummerman from on Feb 25 2007
