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American musician

Person · Open Library

Works
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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1919-03-17
Active to
1965-02-15

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120
Total plays
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Avant-Garde Jazz

William (Bill) Shadrack Cole (b. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1937) is an American jazz musician and educator. Cole, most unusually for his genre, specializes in non-Western wind instruments, including the Ghanaian atenteben, Chinese suona, Korean hojok and piri, South Indian nagaswaram, North Indian shehnai, Tibetan trumpet, and Australian didjeridu. Cole has a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University, writing his dissertation on the music of John Coltrane. <a href="https://www.last.fm/mu

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Bill
Family name
Cole
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Pittsburgh
Field of work
jazz
Genre
jazz
Instrument
trumpet
Official website
billcole.org
Image
BillCole20051008.jpg
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Commons category
Bill Cole
date of birth
1937-01-01
start of work period
1974-00-00
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