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Cozy Cole (October 17 1909 – January 31 1981) was a jazz drummer
Jazz drumming

Jazz drumming is the art of playing percussion in jazz styles ranging from 1910s-style Dixieland jazz to 1970s-era jazz-rock fusion and 1980s-era latin jazz....
 who scored a #1 hit
Hit record

A Hit record is a sound recording, usually in the form of a Single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay , Nightclub, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" one of the popular chart listings....
 with the record
Gramophone record

A gramophone record is an analog signal sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove usually starting near the periphery and ending near the centre of the disc....
 "Topsy Part 2". The recording contained a lengthy drum solo
Drum solo

A drum solo is an Solo played on a drum kit. A drum solo may be set or improvised, and of any length, up to being the main performance.In Rock music, drum solos are unique in that traditionally they are always unaccompanied, whereas other instruments may play solos accompanied or unaccompanied....
, and was one of the few drum solo recordings
Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical or mechanics inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects....
 that ever made the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
 (1958) chart
Record chart

Record chart are a method of ranking music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
. The single
Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
 was issued on the tiny Brooklyn
Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
-based Love Records label.

William Randolph Cole was born in 1909 in East Orange
East Orange, New Jersey

East Orange is a City in Essex County, New Jersey, New Jersey, USA. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city had a total population of 69,824....
, New Jersey
New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania....
. His first music job was with Wilber Sweatman in 1928. In 1930 he played for Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton

Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton was an United States ragtime pianist, bandleader and composer.Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton claimed, in self-promotional hyperbole, to have invented jazz outright in 1902....
's Red Hot Peppers, recording an early drum solo
Drum solo

A drum solo is an Solo played on a drum kit. A drum solo may be set or improvised, and of any length, up to being the main performance.In Rock music, drum solos are unique in that traditionally they are always unaccompanied, whereas other instruments may play solos accompanied or unaccompanied....
 on "Load of Cole".






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Cozy Cole (October 17 1909 – January 31 1981) was a jazz drummer
Jazz drumming

Jazz drumming is the art of playing percussion in jazz styles ranging from 1910s-style Dixieland jazz to 1970s-era jazz-rock fusion and 1980s-era latin jazz....
 who scored a #1 hit
Hit record

A Hit record is a sound recording, usually in the form of a Single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay , Nightclub, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" one of the popular chart listings....
 with the record
Gramophone record

A gramophone record is an analog signal sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove usually starting near the periphery and ending near the centre of the disc....
 "Topsy Part 2". The recording contained a lengthy drum solo
Drum solo

A drum solo is an Solo played on a drum kit. A drum solo may be set or improvised, and of any length, up to being the main performance.In Rock music, drum solos are unique in that traditionally they are always unaccompanied, whereas other instruments may play solos accompanied or unaccompanied....
, and was one of the few drum solo recordings
Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical or mechanics inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects....
 that ever made the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard Single popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on airplay and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday; while the airplay tracking-week runs from Wednesday to Tuesday....
 (1958) chart
Record chart

Record chart are a method of ranking music according to popularity during a given period of time. Examples of music charts are the Hit parade, Hot 100 or Top 40....
. The single
Single (music)

In the record industry, a single is a song usually used from a current or upcoming album to promote the album. Singles are distributed through a number of ways; originally, they were packaged as "single" records with one or two other songs and sold before the release of the album....
 was issued on the tiny Brooklyn
Brooklyn

Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
-based Love Records label.

William Randolph Cole was born in 1909 in East Orange
East Orange, New Jersey

East Orange is a City in Essex County, New Jersey, New Jersey, USA. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city had a total population of 69,824....
, New Jersey
New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania....
. His first music job was with Wilber Sweatman in 1928. In 1930 he played for Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton

Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton was an United States ragtime pianist, bandleader and composer.Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton claimed, in self-promotional hyperbole, to have invented jazz outright in 1902....
's Red Hot Peppers, recording an early drum solo
Drum solo

A drum solo is an Solo played on a drum kit. A drum solo may be set or improvised, and of any length, up to being the main performance.In Rock music, drum solos are unique in that traditionally they are always unaccompanied, whereas other instruments may play solos accompanied or unaccompanied....
 on "Load of Cole". He spent 1931–33 with Blanche Calloway
Blanche Calloway

Blanche Calloway was a Jazz singer, bandleader, and composer from Baltimore, Maryland. She is not as well known as her younger brother Cab Calloway, but she may have been the first woman to lead an all male orchestra....
, 1933-34 with Benny Carter
Benny Carter

Bennett Lester Carter was an United States jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. He was a major figure in jazz from the 1930s to the 1990s, and was recognized as such by other jazz musicians who called him King ....
, 1935-36 with Willie Bryant
Willie Bryant

Willie Bryant was an American jazz bandleader, vocalist, and disc jockey.Bryant grew up in Chicago and took trumpet lessons to little success....
, 1936-38 with Stuff Smith
Stuff Smith

Hezekiah Leroy Gordon Smith , better known as Stuff Smith, was a jazz violinist.Smith was, along with St?phane Grappelli and Joe Venuti, one of jazz music's preeminent violinists of the swing music era....
's small combo, and 1938-42 with Cab Calloway
Cab Calloway

Cabell "Cab" Calloway III was a famous American jazz singer and bandleader.Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States' most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s....
. In 1942, he was hired by CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
 Radio music director Raymond Scott
Raymond Scott

Raymond Scott , was an American composer, band leader, pianist, engineer, recording studio maverick, and electronic instrument inventor. He was born in Brooklyn, New York to a family of Russian-Jewish immigrants....
 as part of network radio's first mixed-race orchestra. After that he played with Louis Armstrong's All Stars
Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers....
.

Cole appeared in music-related films, including a brief cameo in Don't Knock the Rock
Don't Knock the Rock

Don't Knock the Rock was a 1956 rock and roll film starring Alan Dale as a rock star who returns to his hometown to rest up for the summer only to find that rock and roll has been banned there by disapproving adults....
. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s Cole continued to perform in a variety of settings. Cole and Gene Krupa often played duets at the Metropole in New York City during the 1950s and 60s.

He died of cancer in 1981, in Columbus
Columbus, Ohio

Columbus is the Capital , the largest, and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio. Located near the Geographic centers of the United States, Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County, Ohio, although parts of the city also extend into Delaware County, Ohio and Fairfield County, Ohio counties....
, Ohio
Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern United States U.S. state of the United States. As part of the Great Lakes region , Ohio has long been a cultural and geographical crossroads in North America....
.

Cole is cited as an influence by many contemporary rock
Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
 drummers, including Cozy Powell
Cozy Powell

Colin Flooks , better known as Cozy Powell, was an England rock and roll drummer who made his name with major Rock music....
, who part named himself after Cole.

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