Native Baltimorean Rosa “Rambling Rose” Pryor Trusty’s impact on the musical scene locally and nationally for more than four decades is legendary in the entertainment industry. Rosa managed and ...

He started out playing jazz piano, and he was one of the best. His trio — piano, bass and guitar — turned rhythm and melody into a seamless mix. For that alone, we would celebrate Nat King Cole. But ...

Charlie Harris, 87, a jazz bassist with Nat “King” Cole, died of cancer Sept. 9 at a Baltimore hospital. Harris was with Cole from 1951 until shortly before the singer’s death in 1965, appearing on ...

“I still find it hard to believe,” Bill Charlap told me last week, “that most people don’t realize what an essential pianist Nat King Cole was. They don’t know that Nat was one of the greatest ...

(Originally published by the Daily News on Feb. 16, 1965.) HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 15 — Velvet-voiced Nat King Cole, who charmed a generation of fans as a recording and night club singer, died today after a ...