Owney "the murderer" Madden. He was the leading Irish gangster in Manhattan during Prohibition. He owned the famous Cotton Club and promoter of boxing in the 30's. He lived in Liverpool, England, emigrated with his family to the United States in 1903. Madden is soon enlisted in the Gopher gang where he was nicknamed "little Banty rooster from hell." Madden quickly became a fierce fighter. By 1910, at age eighteen, was suspected in the deaths of five members of the gang rivals. His reputation soon won the guidance of one of the three factions of the Gopher. He earned as much as $ 200 per day for the Gopher criminal activities, such as the protection of the crew that the local businessmen. In the fight between gangs for control of the liquor market was a struggle against Diamond "legs" of Jack, Waxey Gordon, and Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll. Which came victoriso. Later opened the Cotton Club on January 1923 in full black neighborhood of Harlem (before the club was Jack Johnson). Night after night for more than three years, Duke Ellington played at the club in the time it opened the Cotton Club Ellington played on radio station WHN, broadcast the show from the "Kentucky Club" (formerly Hollywood club) the band began to be known and then Owney "the murderer" Madden's proposal Ellington. Owney "the murderer" Madden employs to secure Ellington musicians and arrangers in the club (which was the most important thing to her time of great importance in the same way for musicians to play there)
In January 1932 the orchestra Cab Calloway, is hired to perform at the Cotton Club in Harlem in place of Duke Ellington. The club lasted only four years since the original club closed in 1936.
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