American big band, formed by in Springfield, Ohio, from the Synco Jazz Band. They recorded for Victor 1928-1931, often with arrangements by or by trumpeter . McKinney continued to lead the band until the early 1940s, but they made no further recordings.
Name Vars
- M.K.C.P.
- MC Kinney's Cotton Pickers
- MKCP
- Mc Kinney's Cotton Pickers
- McKenney's Cotton Pickers
- McKinney Cotton Pickers
Members
- Coleman Hawkins
- Fats Waller
- Benny Carter
- George Thomas
- Don Redman
- Prince Robinson
- Dave Wilborn
- Ted McCord
- Langston Curl
- Claude Jones
- Ralph Escudero
- Ed Cuffee
- Todd Rhodes
- Cuba Austin
- Joe Smith
- Sidney De Paris
- Billy Taylor Sr.
- Leonard Davis
- James Price Johnson
- Milton Senior
- Kaiser Marshall
- Jimmy Dudley
- John Nesbitt