Rupert Cole

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Rupert Cole (born August 8, 1909 ; † unknown) was a British-West Indian jazz and rhythm & blues musician ( alto and baritone saxophone , clarinet ) of Trinidadian origin.

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Cole received his music education in Barbados and came to New York in 1924. He worked in the local jazz scene from the mid-1920s; The first recordings were made in 1925 with the singer Sam Manning ("Mabel"). In the following years he played a. a. with Bill Brown and his Brownies (1929, probably heard as baritone saxophonist in “What Kind of Rhythm Ís That?”). 1930-31 he toured with Horace Henderson ; from 1931 to 1936 he played with Don Redman ("Bugle Call Rag", 1937), next to the Mills Blue Rhythm Band (1933), with Harlan Lattimore and His Connie's Inn Orchestra (1934) and then in 1938 went to Louis Armstrong , where he stayed until 1944.

In the 1940s, Cole continued to play with Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon and Cootie Williams and His Orchestra . He also appeared on Williams' recordings with Dinah Washington ("Good Daddy Blues"; # 8 on the RB charts in 1949 ). In the 1950s he was still a member of the Lucky Millinder orchestra . The discographer Tom Lord lists his participation in 95 recording sessions between 1925 and 1957.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in Oxford Index
  2. ↑ a b Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 20, 2019)
  3. ↑ Billboard Magazine 1936 to 2014 (Free Archive)
personal data
SURNAME Cole, Rupert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-West Indian rhythm & blues and jazz musician (piano) of Trinidadian origin
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1909
DATE OF DEATH after 1957