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June Lawrence Cole (1903,
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– October 10, 1960, New York City) was an American jazz bassist, tubist, and singer. Cole's first major employment in music was with the
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in Ohio; this group later became McKinney's Cotton Pickers while Cole was still a member. He left the Cotton Pickers in 1926 to play under
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, with whom he stayed until 1928. While with Henderson he played on recordings behind Bessie Smith. In 1928 he toured Europe with Benny Peyton. He remained in Europe for over ten years, playing in the bands of Sam Wooding and Willie Lewis, but spent most of the years 1936-1939 out of music while recovering from a prolonged illness in Paris. He returned to the United States in 1941, leading his own bands in New York and playing in a quartet with Willie "The Lion" Smith in 1947. He continued playing locally in New York through the 1950s, and also ran a
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in Harlem.


References

* June Coleat Allmusic * Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler, ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz''. Oxford, 1999, p. 138. {{DEFAULTSORT:Cole, June 1903 births 1960 deaths American jazz tubists American male jazz musicians American jazz double-bassists 20th-century American musicians Jazz musicians from Ohio 20th-century double-bassists 20th-century American male musicians