A Georgia man who was killed this week while on an Atlanta street early Thursday morning has been identified as the great-nephew of legendary jazz singer and pianist Nat King Cole. Tracy Cole, 31, was ...

Nat King Cole still holds a very special place in music history as one of the most revered jazz and pop musicians. He broke barriers and made history during his lifetime, and the music he made ...

Nat King Cole is known and loved today for his classic vocal recordings but when Cole started out in the late 1930s, he was a jazz pianist, and his singing was an afterthought, Eventfully of course he ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Nat King Cole has been gone for more than half a century, but he’s ...

Oscar-nominated actor Colman Domingo has his sights set on a biopic about Alabama jazz icon Nat King Cole. Variety reports Domingo, who is up for an Academy Award for his leading role in “Rustin,” ...

At a gala in New York, the orchestra recognized two of his daughters, who are underwriting a scholarship to its academy. By James Barron Colman Domingo and Patricia McGregor’s play “Lights Out” ...

All about Nat King Cole's marriages and his five children with wife Maria Hawkins ...

The coronation took place in a Los Angeles saloon. The proprietor slipped up to the bandstand, playfully popped a tinseled paper crown on the young singer’s head, and decreed: “King Cole!” The title ...

More than six decades after Nat King Cole’s death in 1965, his music is still some of the most played in the world, and his celebrity transcends generational and racial divides. His smooth voice, ...

In the heart of Bronzeville, on Chicago's South Side, sits an imposing, red-brick building known to Chicagoans as The Forum. Today, the stained glass windows of this vast hall are boarded up and the ...

During the swing era, Nat King Cole was one of the most influential jazz pianists of the era. and his trio, including the guitarist Oscar Moore, set a new standard for the jazz trio. In part II of the ...