Album: The Jazz Collector Edition: The Trio Recordings, Vol. 2 by The Nat King Cole Trio (1991)
Genre: Jazz
Record Label: Decca Records
Format: Compilation

Description: The second of five CDs in this series (which are also all available as a five-CD box set) features the Trio on 17 selections from radio transcriptions dating from 1945. The jazz-oriented program is highlighted by "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby," "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "Rosetta" and "Solid Potato Salad." Each of these sets offer many strong examples of Nat Cole's swing piano.

Artist Background: While performing at the Café Century during the summer of 1937, Nat King Cole was approached by the manager of the Swanee Inn, who invited him to put together a small band to play in the club. With guitarist Oscar Moore and bassist Wesley Prince, the act debuted that fall, drawing upon the children's nursery rhyme ("Old King Cole was a merry old soul...") for the name the King Cole Swingsters, later simply the King Cole Trio. The group gradually built up a following, with Cole emerging as a ... Emerged in the classic era.

Music Scene: Emerged in the classic era.

Tags: Jazz, 1990s, Compilation, Decca Records


The second of five CDs in this series (which are also all available as a five-CD box set) features the Trio on 17 selections from radio transcriptions dating from 1945. The jazz-oriented program is highlighted by "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby," "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "Rosetta" and "Solid Potato Salad." Each of these sets offer many strong examples of Nat Cole's swing piano.

The Jazz Collector Edition: The Trio Recordings, Vol. 2

The Nat King Cole Trio

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