Nat King Cole is known and loved today for his classic vocal recordings but when Cole started out in the late 1930s, he was a jazz pianist, and his singing was an afterthought, Eventfully of course he ...

Decades before Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” became a Christmas classic, Nat King Cole’s “The Christmas Song” ruled the airwaves. Born in Montgomery, Ala. in 1919, Nathaniel Adams ...

What could put anyone in the holiday mood more quickly than the warm voice of Nat King Cole singing “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire”? “The Christmas Song,” written by Mel Torme and Robert Wells ...

Singer Stella Heath is only 35. One of her most ardently admired jazz heroes died in 1965, more than two decades before she was born, but for her, the music of Nat King Cole is timeless. The ...

During the swing era, Nat King Cole was one of the most influential jazz pianists of the era. and his trio, including the guitarist Oscar Moore, set a new standard for the jazz trio. In part II of the ...