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* Today in Black History - October 17 *
1909 - William R. Cole is born in East Orange, New Jersey. He will
become a jazz drummer best known as "Cozy Cole." He will begin
to play professionally as a teenager and will make his first
recording at age 20 with Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers.
Cozy Cole will join Cab Calloway's band in 1939 and will join
CBS radio in 1943 to play in Raymond Scott's Orchestra, becoming
one of the first African American musicians on a network musical
staff. In 1958, Cole will make a solo hit record, "Topsy," that
sells more than a million copies. He will join the ancestors in
1981.
1985 - Legendary jazz and blues singer Alberta Hunter joins the ancestors
in New York City. She achieved fame in Chicago jazz clubs in the
1920's, toured Europe in the 1930's and, after over 20 years of
anonymity as a nurse, returned to performing in 1977.
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