Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead has the details. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "LET'S DO THINGS") NAT KING COLE: (Singing) We'll call up spots. I know them where the music is really low down. And just for fun ...

"I start singing 'Route 66,' and something came over me. It was probably the best performance of my life. After the show, we hung out and talked and laughed. I told her about my Nat King Cole project.

Nat King Cole was one of the most popular singers ever to hit the American charts. A brilliant recording and concert artist during the 40's, 50's and 60's, he attracted millions of fans around the ...

and singing came as an afterthought, though it emerged early in the career of what came to be known as the Nat King Cole Trio--a swinging configuration of piano, guitar and bass and unison vocals ...

What could put anyone in the holiday mood more quickly than the warm voice of Nat King Cole singing “Chestnuts roasting on an open fire”? “The Christmas Song,” written by Mel Torme and ...

5. According to another legend repeated in the Los Angeles Times, when a listener in a night club asked the Nat King Cole Trio to sing, Cole initially responded, “We don’t sing.” But after ...

John-Mark McGaha sings the music of Nat King Cole in "Unforgettable," a ... McGaha slid onto the bench occasionally to remind us of Cole the singing pianist. McGaha picked up an electric guitar ...

Nat ‘King’ Cole,” which is running through June 29 at New York Theater Workshop. Written by Colman Domingo, an Academy Award nominee for “Rustin” and “Sing Sing,” and Patricia McGreg ...

He previously brought Nat King Cole’s story to the stage by co-writing ... in Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls and Greg Kewdar’s Sing Sing.