Eddie Cole

Eddie Cole was an American jazz musician also known as Edward Bennett Coles. He was the older brother of the famous jazz and pop legend Nat “King” Cole. He was born in 1910 in Montgomery, Alabama, as the first child of Reverend Edward J. Cole and Perlina Adams. Eddie Cole moved to Chicago with his family in 1923, where he studied both piano and bass. By the time he was 17, he had organized his own...