“I still find it hard to believe,” Bill Charlap told me last week, “that most people don’t realize what an essential pianist Nat King Cole was. They don’t know that Nat was one of the greatest ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Few voices in the history of music have carried the elegance, warmth, and sophistication of Nat King Cole.

Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong were A-list celebrities at the top of their art form. Today’s jazz singers are finding new paths. Listen to these 11 favorites. By Giovanni Russonello ...

It’s the last night for the first African-American host of a nationally broadcast television show. Nat “King” Cole, widely regarded as one of the most suave, smooth, well-mannered entertainers of the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. New York Theatre Workshop is now presenting Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole, written ...

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