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FREDDY COLE CHRISTMAS12/18/10
8pm
Dec. 17 & 18, 2010 Freddy Cole Christmas Concert Jazz Café 8pm
(Producer Event on December 17)
Lionel Frederick Cole was born in October 1931, the youngest of Edward and Paulina Nancy Cole's five children. His three elder brothers, Eddie, Ike and Nat (twelve years Freddy's senior) were all musicians. "I started playing piano at five or six," Freddy remembers. In the Chicago home of his youth, visitors included Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Lionel Hampton. Cole doesn't apologize for sounding like his brother, Nat "King" Cole. There are certain unmistakable similarities. He plays piano, sings and performs live with guitar and upright bass, just like Nat. Yet his voice is raspier, smokier, jazzier even. In truth, his phrasing is far closer to that of Frank Sinatra or Billie Holiday than that of his brother and his timing swings a little more. His vocals - suave, elegant, formidable, and articulate - are among the most respected in jazz. Cole's career continues to ascend as he has moved into the front ranks of America's homegrown art form with a style and musical sophistication all his own.
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