Nat King Cole Album Guide and Biography Video

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Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965),known professionally as Nat King Cole, alternatively billed as Nat "King" Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. Cole's career as a jazz and pop vocalist started in the late 1930s and spanned almost three decades where he found success and recorded over 100 songs that became hits on the pop charts.  Cole started his career as a jazz pianist in the late 1930s, when he formed the King Cole Trio, which became the top-selling group (and the only black act) on Capitol Records in the 1940s. Cole's trio was the model for small jazz ensembles that followed. Starting in 1950, he transitioned to become a solo singer billed as Nat King Cole.

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00:00Nat King Cole was born in Montgomery, Alabama in 1919. Cole was one of the finest pianists and

00:11singers in jazz during the 1930s and 40s. Cole would eventually evolve into a pop music crooner

00:21whose music bore little resemblance to hot jazz. But in his initial incarnation, with his band,

00:30the Nat Cole trio, he produced some of the best small ensemble jazz ever recorded. Cole's piano and

00:39Oscar Moore's superb guitar highlighted classic recordings such as Sweet Lorraine, Honeysuckle Rose,

00:48It's Only a Paper Moon, The Frim Fram Sauce, and Route 66. The Nat Cole trio recorded between

00:591939 and 1953. Cole started recording solo albums around the time the trio disbanded,

01:09and he would become one of the premier jazz pop vocalists of the 1950s. Cole's best albums include

01:17the following. The Piano Style of Nat King Cole, from 1955. After Midnight, from 1957.

01:28Love is the Thing, from 1957. The Very Thought of You, from 1958. And To Whom It May Concern, from 1958.

01:40avor is the ним ganska thingy. But here that's the tune. So that's the tune. John

01:42said yesterday. Get back to the pony stage

01:46and call your is mr..

01:47The Virtual Poop We'll see a little boy.

01:49And I speak to a iteration somehow.

01:50story.

01:51The people born in jazz.

01:53So it was my name now.

01:54Today we have John.

01:56I think he looks like some play nerves.

01:57It's not an innate story.

01:59I feel like from 1958.

02:00And I think you did a little boy,

02:02but once I do a little boy,

02:02we have begun to move

02:05again.

02:07So we have them to move

02:08together and do it in the same way

02:08please take a little bit and see

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