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- Lionel Frederick Cole (October 15, 1931 – June 27, 2020) was an American jazz singer and pianist whose recording career spanned almost 70 years. He was the brother of musicians Nat King Cole, Eddie Cole, and Ike Cole, father of Lionel Cole, and uncle of Natalie Cole and Carole Cole.
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Lionel Frederick Cole (October 15, 1931 – June 27, 2020) was an American jazz singer and pianist whose recording career spanned almost 70 years. He was the brother of musicians Nat King Cole, Eddie Cole, and Ike Cole, father of Lionel Cole, and uncle of Natalie Cole and Carole Cole.
Jun 28, 2020 · Freddy Cole, whose debonair yet unassuming vocal style lighted his way through a distinguished jazz career in and out of the shadow of his older brother, Nat King Cole, died on Saturday,...
Jun 28, 2020 · Freddy Cole, whose debonair yet unassuming vocal style lighted his way through a distinguished jazz career, in and out of the shadow of his older brother Nat “King” Cole, died on Saturday at his home in Atlanta, Ga.
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- I’m Not My Brother…
- “I Have No Playlist”
The entertainer was born Lionel Frederick Coles — like his brother, he dropped the “s” of his surname — on 15 October 1931, and was playing piano by the age of six. Like Nat and their siblings Eddie and Ike, both also older than Freddy, he found his vocation in music, and studied his craft fastidiously. He attended Roosevelt Institute in Chicago an...
A series of LPs followed on such labels as De-Lite and First Shot, and he would confront his own relative lack of profile with the 1976 release The Cole Nobody Knows. Freddy also recorded in the late 1970s for Decca, and in 1990 released the candidly-titled, amiably independent song ‘I’m Not My Brother, I’m Me,’ a latter-day signature. Cole was ind...
“People went to Friday night dances, but that stopped with rock ’n’ roll,” mused Cole. “It’s coming back now. I have no playlist; when I get on the band stand is when I determine what we play. I take direction from the audience.” In another interview with NPR, he addressed Nat’s success when he said: “My brother was a very talented man and he used ...
Jun 28, 2020 · Jazz pianist and vocalist Freddy Cole has died at the age of 88. Born in 1931 in Chicago, he called Atlanta home for the last 48 years. Cole passed on the evening of June 27, 2020. Freddy Cole was the younger brother of his famous sibling, Nat King Cole.
Jul 2, 2020 · Freddy Cole, a pianist and vocalist who spent much of his musical life in the shadow of his brother Nat King Cole, but whose durable talents carried him through a triumphant late-career...
Jun 28, 2020 · Freddy Cole, a jazz pianist and balladeer who long performed in the shadow of his older brother Nat King Cole but enjoyed a late-career blossoming with four Grammy nominations and the...
