Cozy Cole

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Cozy Cole

William Randolph Cole called, Cozy Cole , (* 17th October 1906 in East Orange in New Jersey ; † 29. January 1981 in Columbus , Ohio ), was a leading Swing - drummer .

Life

Alongside Gene Krupa, he is considered to be the leading swing drummer, but he was very versatile and, according to Joachim Ernst Berendt, a master of the “unswerving beat”. He had his first appearances in 1928 with Wilbur Sweatman . In 1930 he played Morton's Red Hot Peppers in Jelly Roll (a drum solo recording of which is also preserved: Load of Cole ). From 1931 to 1933 he played with Blanche Calloway , 1933 to 1934 with Benny Carter , 1935 to 1936 with Willie Bryant and 1936 to 1938 with the violinist Stuff Smith . From 1938 to 1942 he was with Cab Calloway and from 1942 to 1945 with Raymond Scott . He also studied piano, clarinet, vibraphone and timpani at the Juilliard School in New York City (with Saul Goodman of the New York Philharmonic ).

In 1944, Cozy Cole's All Star Band entered the Harlem Hit Parade with “ust One More Chance ” ; In 1945 he accompanied u. a. Carmen Jones on Broadway, but also played with Benny Goodman and from 1949 to 1954 with Louis Armstrong , whom he also accompanied on his European tours in 1949 and 1952. In 1954 he founded a drum school with Gene Krupa in New York City. In addition to his teaching activities, he also appeared in the “ Metropole Cafe ” in the 1950s and played with Jack Teagarden and Earl Hines on their European tour in 1957 . In the 1960s he toured with his own combo, in the 1970s with Cab Calloway and Benny Carter. In 1981 he died of cancer.

From left: Jack Teagarden , Sandy DeSantis, Velma Middleton , Fraser MacPherson , Cozy Cole, Arvell Shaw , Earl Hines , Barney Bigard . At the Palomar Supper Club, March 17, 1951.
Mike Bryan, Sanford Gold , Cozy Cole and Jack Lesberg , Famous Door, New York, circa October 1947. Photograph by William P. Gottlieb .

With Topsy II (on which he has a long solo) he had a hit that made it to number 3 on the Billboard 100 charts for pop music in 1958 and sold over a million times. Topsy was originally a number 1 R&B hit by Benny Goodman in 1938. With the first part of Topsy and its successor, Turvy (the English expression topsyturvy stands for utter mess), it also landed in the top 40 (27th and 36th place respectively).

His influence even today on contemporary rock drummers can be seen, for example, in the fact that Cozy Powell named himself after his model.

Cole can also be seen and heard in some films well into the 1950s. He can be heard in the 1951 film The Strip (directed by Laszlo Kardos ), in which Mickey Rooney plays the drummer of the Louis Armstrong band. In the 1953 Glenn Miller Story (directed by Anthony Mann ) he dueled Gene Krupa.

He also appears in the 1961 documentary After Hours by Shephard Traube (with Roy Eldridge , Coleman Hawkins and others)

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Remarks

  1. ↑ so Bohländer Reclam's Jazz Guide 1989. The year of birth 1909 can also be found
  2. ↑ so Bohländer Reclam's Jazz Guide 1989. There is also the statement January 31st
personal data
SURNAME Cole, Cozy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cole, William Randolph (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz drummer
DATE OF BIRTH October 17, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH East Orange , New Jersey , United States
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1981
Place of death Columbus , Ohio , United States