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Cozy Cole’s drumming was an important ingredient in a lot of the jazz documented through the 1930s and ’40s, and he belongs within the same pantheon with Sidney Catlett, Jo Jones, Chick Webb, Dave Rough, Gene Krupa, Specifications Powell, and J.C. Noticed. William Randolph “Cozy” Cole was created in East Orange, NJ, on Oct 17, 1909. He shifted to NEW YORK with his family members in 1926 and shortly became captivated by the task of Duke Ellington’s percussionist Sonny Greer. By 1928 he was executing with clarinetist and bandleader Wilbur Sweatman, and his initial recordings (like the feature amount “Fill of Cole”) had been made out of Jelly Move Morton in 1930. After doing work for many years with Blanche Calloway & Her Pleasure Boys as well as the Benny Carter Orchestra, Cole accelerated his participation within the swarming golf swing scene, making information with rings led by Willie Bryant and pianist Teddy Wilson and support vocalists Billie Vacation, Midge Williams, Mildred Bailey, and Vocalion’s designated Extra fat Waller emulator, Putney Dandridge. Cozy Cole helped with Henry “Crimson” Allen’s first documenting of “Algiers Stomp,” and produced information with Bunny Berigan, Bud Freeman’s Windy Town Five, Chu Berry’s Stompy Stevedores, Stuff Smith’s Onyx Membership Orchestra, Frankie Newton’s Uptown Serenaders, and Lionel Hampton. Through the season 1939 he caused Pete Dark brown & His Leap Music group, Joe Marsala & His Delta Six, Leonard Feather’s All-Stars, and one-armed trumpeter Wingy Manone. In 1940, Cozy Cole got his 10 years of knowledge and descended upon the Cab Calloway Orchestra throughout that short period once the extroverted head, hesitant to surrender the limelight, begrudgingly designated instrumental features to his superstar players. Cole was the primary concentrate of “Ratamacue,” “Paradiddle,” and “Crescendo in Drums.” In 1943 he caused bandleader Raymond Scott and performed “Defeat Out Dat Tempo on the Drum” within the Broadway creation of Oscar Hammerstein II’s Carmen Jones. The entire year 1944 was a triumphant one for Cole, as he led many all-star groupings for the Keynote and Savoy brands and offered with rings led by trumpeter Roy Eldridge, saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, bassist Billy Taylor, and cornetist Rex Stewart. He also sat along with pianist Johnny Guarnieri and saxophonist Lester Youthful, clarinetist Hank D’Amico, tenor guy Walter “Foots” Thomas, and many groups doing work for the MILITARY V-Disc task. Cozy Cole helped hasten the alchemical transmutation of golf swing into bop by documenting as a head for the Keynote, Continental, and Guild brands, and by sidelining with Don Redman and Don Byas, with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie on the extremely acclaimed “Everything YOU HAPPEN TO BE” program of Feb 29, 1945. During this time period, inspired perhaps with the stylistic trend in which he previously begun to participate, Cozy Cole got himself towards the Juilliard College of Music and perfected his currently seasoned method of the drum package. In 1946 and 1947 Cole documented with Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, and Louis Armstrong, finally settling along with Armstrong’s All-Stars from 1949 to 1953 and starting a college for drummers with Gene Krupa in March 1954 that could continue steadily to educate aspiring percussionists until Krupa’s loss of life in 1973. After touring European countries with Jack port Teagarden and Earl Hines in 1957, Cozy Cole’s profession suddenly became popular like a container rocket being a 1958 drum-driven big-band remake from the Edgar Fight/Eddie Durham/Count number Basie tune “Topsy” (b/w “Turvy”) strike the pop and R&B graphs, publicly aligning him with flashy “Teenager Beat” rock and roll & move drummer Sandy Nelson. On the following seven years, Cole documented more music with this vein for the Like, Felsted, and Coral imprints, and a 1961 LP for the Charlie Parker record label comprising jazzy lounge interpretations of styles from Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen (echoing his stage triumph of 1943). In 1969 Cole started gigging along with his aged session partner Jonah Jones and caused the trumpeter’s group intermittently for quite some time. Late maturity discovered him jamming in a jazz event in Good, France, in 1974 and taking part in a Louis Armstrong alumni task under the management of Lionel Hampton in 1977. Cozy Cole received an honorary level from Capital University or college in Columbus, OH, in 1978, and lectured there regularly for the others of his existence. He passed on in Columbus on January 31, 1981.
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| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | Along with Gene Krupa, he ran a drum tuition academy in New York during the early and mid-1950's. He duetted with Krupa in the motion picture The Glenn Miller Story (1954). |
| 2 | Was the first black musician engaged as a member of a network musical staff, when he was hired by CBS in 1943 to work alongside Raymond Scott. |
| 3 | Studied at the Juilliard School of Music. |
| 4 | As member of an All-Star Orchestra led by Jack Teagarden and Earl Hines, he toured Europe in 1957 and the following year had a million selling singles hit with "Topsy". During the early 1960's, the Cozy Cole Combo performed at the Metropole in New York and a quintet led by Cole toured Africa between 1962 and 1963. |
| 5 | Started on drums as a child, becoming professional in 1928. After playing in the orchestra of Wilbur Sweatman, he organised his first own band and, by 1930, recorded with Jelly Roll Morton. During the 1930's and 40's, he alternated leading small groups with playing for, among others, Cab Calloway, Benny Carter, Benny Goodman and the Louis Armstrong All-Stars. |
| 6 | Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 170-171. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998. |
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rules Don't Apply | 2016 | performer: "Topsy Part 2" | |
| Like Mike | 2002 | performer: "Topsy, Part 2" | |
| All You Need | 2001 | performer: "Topsy-Turvy" | |
| Who Shot Patakango? | 1989 | performer: "Topsy Part II" | |
| Timex All-Star Jazz Show | 1957-1958 | TV Series performer - 2 episodes | |
| Make Mine Music | 1946 | performer: "After You've Gone" 1918 - as Cole |
Actor
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Strip | 1951 | Drummer (uncredited) | |
| Botta e risposta | 1950 | Musician |
Music Department
Music Department
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| After You've Gone | 1946 | Short musician: drums - as Cole | |
| All the Cats Join In | 1946 | Short musician: drums - uncredited |
Self
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| After Hours | 1961 | Documentary short | Himself |
| The Dick Clark Show | 1958 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Garry Moore Show | 1958 | TV Series | Himself |
| Timex All-Star Jazz Show | 1957-1958 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Glenn Miller Story | 1954 | Himself | |
| Jazz Concert | 1949 | TV Series | Himself |
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