Ike Cole Transcriptions

Birth name: Ike Cole or Isaac "Ike" Cole
Born: July 13, 1927, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Died: April 22, 2001 (aged 73) Sun Lakes, Arizona, United States
Genres: Vocal jazz, swing, traditional pop, jump blues, vocal

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Cole was the younger brother of Nat "King" Cole and the older brother of Freddy Cole, and played drums as a youth. He played bass drum in a U.S. Army band during the Korean War, and moved back to Chicago after his discharge, where he formed his own jazz trio. He appeared on television in the 1950s and held a residency in Las Vegas, later touring internationally