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gy who performed a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 11. He began playing jazz in high school, initially influenced by Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans. He also developed a passion for electronics and science, and double-majored in music and electrical engineering at Grinnell College.

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

iano, guitar, and bass in the time of the big bands became a popular setup for a jazz trio. It was emulated by many musicians, among them Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal, and blues pianists Charles Brown and Ray Charles. On November s, 1956, The Nat King Cole Show debuted on NBC. The variety program was

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

who performed a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 11. He began playing jazz in high school, initially influenced by Oscar Peterson and Bill Evans. He also developed a passion for electronics and science, and double-majored in music and electrical engineering at Grinnell College

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