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- Cozy and His Friends in Love
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1909
- Active to
- 1981
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Discography
Member of
- Louis Armstrong & His All-Stars1949–1953
- Roy Eldridge and His Orchestra
- The Little Jazz Trumpet Ensemble
- Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra
- Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra
- Cozy Cole and His Orchestra
- Cozy Cole and His Quintet
- Cozy Cole All Stars
- Dizzy Gillespie Sextet
- Stuff Smith and His Onyx Club Boys
- The Cab Jivers
- Hank D'Amico Sextet
- Cozy Cole Orchestra
- The Henry “Red” Allen Band
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Cozy Cole (October 17, 1909 – January 9, 1981) was an American jazz drummer who scored a #1 Cashbox magazine hit with the record "Topsy Part 2" (also known as "Topsy II", "Topsy 2", and so on). That song peaked at number three on Billboard Hot 100 and at number one on the R&B chart. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc. The track, which also peaked at #29 in the U.K. Singles Chart in 1958, contained a lengthy drum solo and was one of the few drum solo recordings that ever
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Cole
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- East Orange
- Place of death
- Columbus
- Occupation
- bandleader
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- drum kit
- Record label
- Savoy Records
- Image
- Cozy Cole.jpg
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- Cozy Cole
- date of birth
- 1909-10-17
- date of death
- 1981-01-29
- cause of death
- cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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