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Nat King Cole's Brother Freddy Cole To Perform In Turkey
Turkish Press, MI - Added to database: 5/16/2008 5:09:59 AM
Cole, who is brother of legendary jazz singer Nat King Cole, will appear at Istanbul Jazz Center on May 23rd and 24th. Cole will take stage together with ...

Celebration of Nat King Cole will be unforgettable
South Yorkshire Times, UK - Added to database: 5/16/2008 5:09:59 AM
LIKE the name of one of his most famous songs, singer Nat King Cole is Unforgettable. Now a new concert called Unforgettable at the Civic Theatre, ...

An American classic
Prague Post, Czech Republic - Added to database: 5/15/2008 10:49:51 PM
Cole, 76, is the younger brother (by 12 years) of Nat “King” Cole, the legendary American crooner whose popularity has only grown since his untimely death ...

Natalie Cole to play Stamford's Palace
Stamford Advocate, CT - Added to database: 5/15/2008 10:49:51 PM
The daughter of one of America's most beloved entertainers, Nat "King" Cole, Natalie Cole has built her own successful singing/songwriting career, ...

Mike Horyczun column — Variety is the key to area's concert scene ...
Wilton Villager, CT - Added to database: 5/15/2008 10:49:51 PM
The daughter of the late, great Nat "King" Cole, Natalie has a singing career that spans more than 30 years. She's won eight Grammy Awards and is probably ...

Revista "The New Yorker" publica los 100 álbumes esenciales del jazz
El Mercurio OnLine (Chile), Chile - Added to database: 5/15/2008 10:49:51 PM
The Nat King Cole Trio, “The Best of the Nat King Cole Trio: The Vocal Classsics, Vol. 1, 1942-1946” (Blue Note, 1995). 32. Charlie Parker, “The Complete ...

Hartford Courant

Natalie Cole's Strength Is Throwback Jazz
Hartford Courant, United States - Added to database: 5/15/2008 7:47:53 AM
A very different sort of singer than her father, Nat King Cole, she assayed several of his tunes, some with more comfort than others. ...
Natalie Cole to play Stamford's Palace Stamford Advocate
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Showtime: How Sin City evolved into ‘The Entertainment Capital of ...
Las Vegas Sun, NV - Added to database: 5/15/2008 7:47:53 AM
Other 1950s notables that came to play Vegas, included the Marx Brothers, Judy Garland, Nat King Cole, Lena Horne and Abbott & Costello. ...

"America's Got Talent" Million-Dollar Winner Terry Fator Lands Gig ...
CNNMoney.com - Added to database: 5/13/2008 8:42:28 PM
... perform the singing styles of an eclectic group of stars including Elvis, Maroon Five, Nat King Cole and Natalie Cole, James Blunt and Marvin Gaye. ...

Times Online

The Story of the Supremes at the V&A
Times Online, UK - Added to database: 5/12/2008 9:57:03 PM
... was based on presenting a middle-class form of black identity similar to that which Nat King Cole had evolved to further his career. ...

'America's Got Talent' ventriloquist winner gets Vegas gig
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - Added to database: 5/12/2008 12:03:25 PM
... who won $1 million last year by impressing judges in the television variety contest with portrayals of Tony Bennett, Nat King Cole and Kermit the Frog, ...

Legacy Jazz Festival opens this weekend
Daytona Beach News-Journal, FL - Added to database: 5/10/2008 12:37:11 AM
By RICK de YAMPERT The brother of Nat King Cole. A doctor who dissed Miles. Those musicians and others will perform at this weekend's Legacy Jazz Festival. ...

Editorials: Evading punishment, again
Sun.Star, Philippines - Added to database: 5/10/2008 12:37:11 AM
If so, we will again hear the familiar refrain of Nat King Cole’s “Mona Lisa,” used by wags to describe the city’s unsolved crimes: they just lie there and ...

John Dankworth at the Concorde
this is hampshire.net, UK - Added to database: 5/10/2008 12:37:11 AM
He served as musical director for Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Sophie Tucker and many others. His composing career extended to the ...

Music Review: Nat King Cole - Wild Is Love (Reissue)
Blogcritics.org, OH - Added to database: 5/9/2008 7:09:54 PM
The cascading feelings of love can be lethal, especially when there’sa red dress involved. Nat King Cole helped me through that night as I nursed my wounds. ...

Boston Globe

Cole opens Pops season with class and classics
Boston Globe, United States - Added to database: 5/9/2008 1:15:06 AM
The show's emotional high point came courtesy of the singer's father, Nat "King" Cole, who appeared on the video screen to sing "Unforgettable" with his ...

Teen earns pageant crown
SouthJerseyLocalNews.com, NJ - Added to database: 5/9/2008 1:15:06 AM
And, at it seems is custom, art teacher Louie Moustakas finished the night by singing both the male and female parts of "Unforgettable" by Nat King Cole and ...

Cole sizzles in Pops' home opener
Boston Globe, United States - Added to database: 5/8/2008 10:09:20 AM
The show's emotional high point came courtesy of the singer's father, Nat "King" Cole, who appeared on the video screen to sing "Unforgettable" with his ...

Music Review: Nat King Cole - A Mis Amigos
Blogcritics.org, OH - Added to database: 5/8/2008 10:09:20 AM
By the late 1950s, Nat King Cole wasn’t just an American treasure; his star shone beyond the shores of the United States and gave him international acclaim. ...

Freddy Cole and Dave Brubeck Quartets at the Kimmel Center ...
All About Jazz, PA - Added to database: 5/6/2008 2:30:31 AM
Freddy Cole, the brother of Nat King Cole, is a great vocalist in his own right, having experienced early on the presence of many great musicians, ...

A Tribute to Nat King Cole featuring Walt Maddox
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Added to database: 5/5/2008 4:08:13 PM
The unforgettable song styling of Nat King Cole returns in this memorable tribute to one of the world's most beloved performers. Mona Lisa, Those Lazy Crazy ...

COMMENTARY: XM radio brings back tunes of the '40s, and more
San Jose Mercury News,  USA - Added to database: 5/2/2008 6:35:00 PM
... boop, ditdontem wantem chew," "Three itty bitty fish in an itty bitty pool" and that odd melody so lovingly sung by Nat King Cole, "Nature Boy. ...

Pops starts with a bang
Abington Mariner, MA - Added to database: 5/1/2008 7:34:59 AM
The daughter of the late Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole first came to fame in the mid-1970s with hits like “This Will Be (an Everlasting Love),” “Inseparable,” ...

Alma Smith Trio
JazzStage Productions, MI - Added to database: 5/1/2008 7:34:59 AM
Nat “King” Cole and Clarence Profit pioneered this new format in the late 1930s. Detroit featured several trio's styled after Cole's group, one of which was ...

Serving Riverhead Since 1868
Riverhead News-Review, NY - Added to database: 5/1/2008 7:34:59 AM
Character actors and actresses will portray "Mrs. Television" Faye Emerson and the "Unforgettable" Nat King Cole. The fee is $42 and the bus will depart ...

Canada.com

Natalie Cole: still unforgettable
Canada.com, Canada - Added to database: 4/29/2008 4:26:30 PM
Her father, Nat King Cole, was a respected and influential pianist in the late '30s and early '40s before making the switch to singing pop standards. ...

Songstress Natalie Cole gives Cleveland JazzFest audience a night ...
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - Added to database: 4/29/2008 8:28:42 AM
It happened at the 2000 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction gala, where her father, the late Nat "King" Cole, was enshrined as an early influence. ...

All About Jazz

Sathima Bea Benjamin: Song Without End
All About Jazz, PA - Added to database: 4/29/2008 8:28:42 AM
So there was a lot of, being the union part of the British Commonwealth, like India, I would turn to the BBC and I would hear Nat King Cole. ...

Natalie Cole set to sing album of old standards
Windsor Star,  Canada - Added to database: 4/28/2008 8:46:28 AM
Her father, Nat King Cole, was a respected and influential pianist in the late '30s and early '40s before making the switch to singing pop standards. ...

Natalie Cole remains "Unforgettable" in Tri-C JazzFest gig
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - Added to database: 4/27/2008 2:24:11 AM
It happened at the 2000 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction gala, where her father, the late Nat "King" Cole, was enshrined as an early influence. ...
Music Review: Nat King Cole - Top Pops (Reissue) Blogcritics.org
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How Fergie is striking the right notes
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - Added to database: 4/27/2008 2:24:11 AM
I've got all my Sixties stuff on it, Sinatra, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole." It's time for a United band. Fergie could enlist Carlos Tevez, who fronted a ...

Music Review: Nat King Cole - Top Pops (Reissue)
Blogcritics.org, OH - Added to database: 4/25/2008 11:09:49 AM
With 1963’s Top Pops, Capitol assembled another selection of Nat King Cole singles to follow-up the release of 1952’s Unforgettable. ...

Nat King Cole’ to play Paramount
Austin Herald, MN - Added to database: 4/25/2008 6:58:23 AM
An Unforgettable Tribute to Nat King Cole.” He does not refer to himself as a Cole impersonator, rather, a re-creator. “It’s part theater and a lot of music ...

The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com

No Fest like Jazzfest: Powerhouse Producer attracts national lineup
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - Added to database: 4/25/2008 6:58:23 AM
This year, 'tribute' concerts are plentiful, such as jazz singer Phillip Manuel's homage to Nat King Cole. Thus jazz singer Phillip Manuel salutes Nat King ...

Natalie Cole coming to Palace Theatre
The Stamford Times, CT - Added to database: 4/23/2008 3:57:31 PM
The daughter of one of America's most beloved entertainers, Nat "King" Cole, Natalie Cole has built a successful singing career that has spanned over thirty ...

Free concert lineup for Millennium Park is 'World Class'
Chicago Tribune, United States - Added to database: 4/23/2008 4:01:23 AM
By Howard Reich | Tribune critic April 23, 2008 A celebration of the 50th anniversary of the bossa nova and tributes to Nat "King" Cole and Sun Ra will ...

Tyrone Daily Herald

Annual library concert
Tyrone Daily Herald,  USA - Added to database: 4/22/2008 1:04:45 PM
... with a Tribute to Nat King Cole; Brittany Ullrich, in a Salute to Cher and Jerry Connelly, who gave a Salute to Buddy Holly and Gene Pitney. ...

Music Review: Nat King Cole - Every Time I Feel the Spirit (Reissue)
Blogcritics.org, OH - Added to database: 4/22/2008 12:34:35 AM
Some critics consider Nat King Cole's Every Time I Feel the Spirit recording to be one of his strangest, but a quick glimpse into his personal history shows ...
Music Review: Nat King Cole - To Whom It May Concern (Reissue) Blogcritics.org
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Music Review: Nat King Cole - To Whom It May Concern (Reissue)
Blogcritics.org, OH - Added to database: 4/20/2008 3:18:02 PM
When I think about a soundtrack to such an evening, Nat King Cole almost always springs to mind; He did in the Bugs Bunny days, and he does now. ...

Music Review: Nat King Cole - The Very Thought of You (Reissue)
Blogcritics.org, OH - Added to database: 4/20/2008 3:18:02 PM
and rediscovering the magic that is Nat King Cole has been a delight. Something about The Very Thought of You seems to reach above and beyond the norm and ...

Music Review: Nat King Cole - Sings My Fair Lady (Reissue)
Blogcritics.org, OH - Added to database: 4/18/2008 8:31:32 AM
When I flipped through my stack of Nat King Cole reissues from Collector’s Choice, one that instantly caught my eye was Nat King Cole Sings My Fair Lady. ...

Diamanda Galás - Guilty Guilty Guilty
Artvoice, NY - Added to database: 4/18/2008 7:02:30 AM
Less expected are songs like Nat King Cole’s gentle “Autumn Leaves,” which she treats with a lovely piano intro that shifts between foreboding chords and ...

Jazz, R&B fill Wells'Built Museum in Orlando once a month
Orlando Sentinel, FL - Added to database: 4/17/2008 11:27:46 PM
"An Evening of Tribute to the Great Nat King Cole" is the theme for the evening affair on Saturday, and an Orlando jazz artist who is known by his stage ...

Pianist and singer schooled in Cole
South Bend Tribune, IN - Added to database: 4/17/2008 11:27:46 PM
By HOWARD DUKES SOUTH BEND — A legend has developed about the first time Nat “King” Cole publicly performed the song “Sweet Lorraine. ...

Music Review: Nat King Cole - Unforgettable (Reissue)
Blogcritics.org, OH - Added to database: 4/17/2008 3:11:08 PM
“Unforgettable” may well be Nat King Cole’s signature song, thanks in large part to Natalie Cole’s magnificent virtual duet with her father in 1991. ...
Music Review: Nat King Cole - This is Nat King Cole (Reissue) Blogcritics.org
Music Review: Nat King Cole - The Very Thought of You (Reissue) Blogcritics.org
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Entertainment digest
Post-Bulletin, MN - Added to database: 4/17/2008 3:11:08 PM
"Straiten Up and Fly Right," a tribute to the music and times of Nat King Cole, will be presented at 7:30 pm April 26 at the Paramount Theatre in Austin. ...

Jazz Singer Johnny Hartman: An Underappreciated but Brilliant Vocalist
Blogcritics.org, OH - Added to database: 4/17/2008 3:11:08 PM
Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, and Tony Bennett, to name a few, would be the most likely candidates. But one more worthy singer can be added ...

Music Review: Nat King Cole - This is Nat King Cole (Reissue)
Blogcritics.org, OH - Added to database: 4/17/2008 3:53:14 AM
If there ever was a single artist who could sum up a sort of soundtrack to the lives of my grandparents and their deep love, it would be Nat King Cole. ...
Music Review: Nat King Cole - The Very Thought of You (Reissue) Blogcritics.org
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