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program was expanded to a half hour in July 1957. Despite the efforts of NBC, as well as many of Cole's industry colleagues — many of whom, such as Ella Fitzgerald, Harry Belafonte, Franlde fain, Mel Torme, Peggy Lee, Eartha Kitt, and backing vocal group The Cheerleaders worked for industry scale (or even for

ecording contract. At the time, Cole was considered a leading jazz pianist, appearing in the first Jan at the Philharmonic concerts (credited on the Mercury Record label as "Shorty Nadine" — derived from his wife's name — as he was under exclusive contract to Capitol Records at the time). His revolutionar

z and soul. His landmark 1989 album, Back On The Block— named "Album Of The Year" at the 1990 Grammy Awards— brought such legends as Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Miles Davis together with Ice T, Big Daddy Kane and Melle Mel to create the first fusion of the be bop and hip hop musical trad

n tutor to American expatriate composers such as Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copeland. To subsidize his studies he took a job with Barclay Disques, Mercury's French distributor. Among the artists he recorded in Europe were Charles Aznavour, Jacques Brel and Henri Salvador, as well as such visitors fro

r the years led to two hosting assignments in the 1980s: “Rock School” on PBS and Showtime’s “Coast To Coast”. After an adventurous 1994 project for Mercury Records, ‘Dis Is Da Drum’, he moved to the Verve label, forming an all-star band to record 1996’s Grammy- winning ‘The New Standard’. In 1997, an albu

z and soul. His landmark 1989 album, Back On The Block— named “Album Of The Year” at the 1990 Grammy Awards— brought such legends as Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Miles Davis together with Ice T, Big Daddy Kane and Melle Mel to create the first fusion of the be bop and hip hop musical traditi