Solid bio tunes in to brilliance of Nat King Cole

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: November 14, 1999| Author: PHIL KLOER | Copyright information

Nat King Cole. By Daniel Mark Epstein. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 420 pages. $27.

Nat (as in Nathaniel) "King" Cole was one of the greatest jazz pianists ever, but a musician whose legacy today, for too many casual fans, is a handful of easy listening tunes.

Not that there's anything wrong with the crooner's crisp elocution and velvety tones on "Mona Lisa," "Sweet Lorraine," "Nature Boy," "L- O-V-E" and of course "The Christmas Song" ("Chestnuts roasting on an open fire . ....

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