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Avant-Garde Jazz
William (Bill) Shadrack Cole (b. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1937) is an American jazz musician and educator. Cole, most unusually for his genre, specializes in non-Western wind instruments, including the Ghanaian atenteben, Chinese suona, Korean hojok and piri, South Indian nagaswaram, North Indian shehnai, Tibetan trumpet, and Australian didjeridu. Cole has a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University, writing his dissertation on the music of John Coltrane. <a href="https://www.last.fm/mu
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bill
- Family name
- Cole
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Pittsburgh
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Wesleyan University
- Employer
- Amherst College
- Field of work
- jazz
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- trumpet
- Official website
- billcole.org
- Image
- BillCole20051008.jpg
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- Bill Cole
- date of birth
- 1937-01-01
- start of work period
- 1974-00-00
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