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With a soft, velvety smooth voice and profound elegance and dignity, jazz star Nat King Cole stands as a legendary figure in American music. While still in his teens Cole began performing as a pianist in Chicago clubs with his brothers, making his first recordings for Decca Records under the name Eddie Cole's Solid Swingers in 1936 before moving to LA and signing with the newly formed Capitol Records in 1943. Breaking the popular big band mould with a line-up featuring only piano, bass and guitar, a stack of early jazz hits followed, before he developed into a classic, soulful cr...