{"id":1905,"date":"2016-05-13T23:36:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T23:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/music\/eddie-cole-doesn-t-take-his-family-legacy-lightly\/"},"modified":"2016-05-13T23:36:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T23:36:05","slug":"eddie-cole-doesn-t-take-his-family-legacy-lightly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/music\/eddie-cole-doesn-t-take-his-family-legacy-lightly","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Cole Doesn’t Take His Family Legacy Lightly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Eddie Cole. Photo by Tim “Fabricated” Hasta.<\/em><\/p>\n

Eddie Cole was 18 years from being born when his great uncle died. Nat King Cole, who at age 45 succumbed to lung cancer, left an indelible legacy as an accomplished jazz pianist, singer and as one of the first African-Americans to host a national TV variety show.<\/p>\n

Now 33 and based in Long Beach, the vocalist and multi-instrumentalist carries the name with pride. At the moment, he is busily preparing for a worldwide tour as the musical director for Alina Baraz and Galimatias. Cole also fronts the Long Beach-based future-soul group Z (formerly known as Mulatto), who caught the attention of Nas about five years ago and has since performed as his tour band.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Raised as an only child in the Inland Empire, he was surrounded by music from birth. Both his parents are music professionals\u00a0\u2014 his mother Laura Cole, an opera singer, multi-instrumentalist and lifelong teacher, and his father Eddie Cole Sr., a multi-instrumentalist who has worked with the likes of Ray Charles, Chaka Khan and Natalie Cole.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried to fight it for a while,\u201d Eddie said about his ancestry.\u00a0\u201cI tried to go by a different alias, but I\u2019m over it. That was my younger, more rebellious days. Now I understand what he\u2019s done and what my parents have done to give me that name. I want to do great things with it.”<\/p>\n

Cole, who plays the drums, piano and bass, grew up singing in church choirs, performing with the worship band and dabbling in his father\u2019s home studio, which he basically took over by middle school. He remembers the long car rides to and back from LA listening to gospel and old-school tunes with his parents, who he credits\u00a0for building the early foundations for his musical prowess and vocal chops.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey would break out into two-part harmonies and I\u2019d start singing and they\u2019d try to help me,\u201d he\u00a0remembered. “Driving back and forth with my parents from Rialto to LA, those were my greatest music lessons. I learned some great things in that car.”<\/p>\n

When he\u2019s not on tour, Cole stays grounded in Long Beach, playing small venues in the local circuit. Next Thursday, the independent artist will take the stage at the Prospector with special guests joining him. He\u2019ll be performing a motley of songs from his solo discography \u2014 including his latest full-length\u00a0Inertia: the art of motion<\/i>\u00a0and 2014\u2019s EP\u00a0Godspeed<\/i>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Bootleg Orchestra. Photo by Menchie Caliboso.<\/em><\/p>\n

Joining the night are\u00a0Long Beach\u2019s own jazz-electronic project Bootleg Orchestra, led by producer Menchie Caliboso and vocalist\/trumpeter Vanessa Acosta,\u00a0<\/i>and R&B\/soul band The Black Noise, led by vocalist Donovan Brown and guitarist\u00a0Victor Ujadughele. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI love the art, the thrill of the performance,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u201cI just want to play wherever I can, whenever I can right now. I\u2019m not too big for anything, and nothing\u2019s too small. It\u2019s about getting better and improving your art.”<\/p>\n

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The Black Noise. Photo by Epicz.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI won\u2019t give my soul up for some money or bigger opportunity,\u201d he continued.\u00a0\u201cI gotta stay true to me. Prospector is like Madison Square Garden\u00a0\u2014 I\u2019ll play it just the same.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eddie Cole will perform with special guests at the Prospector on May\u00a019, along with Bootleg Orchestra and The Black Noise. Tickets are $5 at the door.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eddie Cole was 18 years from being born when his great uncle died. Nat King Cole, who at age 45 succumbed to lung cancer, left an indelible legacy as an accomplished jazz pianist, singer and as one of the first African-Americans to host a national TV variety show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":67278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[938],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-on-the-beat","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}