◇ image via WikipediaThe Nat King Cole Trio
The Nat King Cole Trio is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines and Fats Waller. Those roots explain a lot about how The Nat King Cole Trio arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Peggy Lee, Dinah Washington, Benny Goodman, Doris Day and Count Basie, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Natalie Cole, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 13 connections around The Nat King Cole Trio, reaching back through Louis Armstrong and forward to Natalie Cole. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Nathaniel Adams Coles, known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. Cole's career as a jazz and pop vocalist started in the late 1930s and spanned almost three decades where he found success and recorded over 100 songs that became hits on the pop charts.
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The Nat King Cole Trio connections
The Nat King Cole Trio grew out of Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines and Fats Waller, shares an orbit with Peggy Lee, Dinah Washington, Benny Goodman and Doris Day, went on to shape Natalie Cole. 13 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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