The Cotton Club at Sixth and Mound streets in Cincinnati’s West End attracted major jazz performers like Count Basie and Duke Ellington.

Cars packed the bright green manicured lawn outside the Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center. Inside, guests bumped elbows at more than 10 tables set up in the main hall of the historic building.

Coppola came into the film as a screenwriter before being tasked with directing John Malahy looks back at the film's history in his new book, Rewinding The ’80s: Cinema Under the Influence of Music ...

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