Freddy Cole

DATE(S):	Friday April 30, 2010; 8:00 pm
COST:	$30, $25 Students and seniors
AGE RESTRICTION:	All Ages
TYPE:	Jazz

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Quartet includes: Freddy Cole, piano and vocals; Randy Napoleon, guitar; Elias Bailey, bass; and Curtis Boyd, drums.

    Freddy Cole has been a recording artist since 1952, when his first single "The Joke’s on Me" was released on an obscure Chicago-based label. During the 1970’s, Cole recorded several albums for European and English companies that helped him develop a loyal overseas following. A resident of Atlanta, Georgia since 1972, he currently leads a quartet that regularly tours the United States, Europe, the Far East and South America.
    Cole doesn't apologize for sounding like his brother, Nat "King" Cole. There are certain unmistakable similarities. He plays piano and sings and performs live with guitar and upright bass, just like Nat. Yet his voice is raspier, smokier, jazzier even. But he has emerged from the awesome shadow cast by his elder brother. 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 are suave, elegant, formidable and articulate and are among the most respected in jazz. Cole’s career continues to ascend as he has moved into the front ranks of America’s most precious art form with a style and musical sophistication uniquely his own.
    A review of Cole’s album, “A Dreamer in Me” in Jazz Times described Cole’s sound: “A true gentleman of song, Freddy shares his brother’s courtliness, seamless in his ability to create an atmosphere that is elegantly smooth yet warmly familiar. Such assuredness requires no grand gestures; his musicianship is immensely rich, but never ostentatious.” To read the rest of the article, visit http://jazztimes.com/articles/25948-the-dreamer-in-me-freddy-cole.

More Information:

http://www.freddycole.com/biography.html

http://www.myspace.com/freddycole2

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