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Holiday & Seasonal,
Jazz,
Vocals
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| Descriptive "tags": |
jazz, oldies, jazz vocal
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| Decades Active: |
1950s,
1960s,
1970s,
1980s,
1990s,
2000s
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Biography
Nathaniel Adams Coles, 17 March 1919 (although 1916 and 1917 have also been cited), Montgomery, Alabama, USA, d. 15 February 1965, Santa Monica, California, USA. Cole was born into a family that held a key position in the black community; his father was pastor of the First Baptist Church. In 1921 the family migrated to Chicago, part of the mass exodus of blacks seeking a better life in the booming industrial towns of the north. He learned piano by ear from his mother, who was choir director in the church, from the age of four. When he was 12 years old he took lessons in classical piano, "everything from Bach to Rachmaninoff". Jazz was all-pervasive in Chicago, and Cole's school was a musical hotbed, producing musicians of the stature of Ray Nance, Eddie South and Milt Hinton. Cole's first professional break came touring with the show Shuffle Along, a revival of the first all-black show to make it to Broadway, which he joined with his bass-playing brother, Eddie....
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