Richie Cole
About the artist
Richie Cole (born in Trenton, NJ, on 29 February 1948; died 2 May 2020) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He formed his Richie Cole Quintet and toured worldwide, developing his own "alto madness" bebop style in the 70s and early '80s. He formed the Alto Madness Orchestra in the 1990s. A graduate of Ewing High School, Ewing New Jersey, Cole started on alto saxophone when he was ten encouraged by his father who owned a jazz club in New Jersey.
Top songs
- Hi-Fly
- NEW YORK AFTERNOON
- Malibu Breeze
- Tokyo Rose Sings The Hollywood Blues
- Island Breeze
- I Love Lucy
- Remember Your Day Off
- Waitin' For Waits
- Harolds House Of Jazz
- Confirmation
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- I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
- Moody's Mood
- Moody's Mood '78
- Cole's Nocturne
- Hooray For Hollywood
- Body and Soul
- Last Tango In Paris
- Maria
- The Common Touch
- Jeannine
- Tonight
- Somewhere
- Adios
- The Price Is Right
- Save Your Love for Me
- Relaxin' At Camarillo
- Big Bo's Paradise
- America
- Sleigh Ride
- Lady Bird
- I'll Be Home for Christmas
- I Feel Pretty
- There Never Will Be Another You
- Cool & Jet Song
- West Side Blues
- Kush
- Something's Coming
- Cherokee
- I Can't Get Started
- Hi Fly
- Donna Lee
- Hooray For Hollywood (Reprise)
- Penthouse Serenade
- Return To Alto Acres
- Um Ummm
- Silver Bells
- Yakety Sax
- Christmas Time Is Here
- What a Wonderful World
- Somewhere Over the Rainbow
- Things We Did Last Summer
- Blue Christmas
- Night Train
- Dreamy
- Palo Alto Blues
- Alto Madness
- Pure Imagination
- Blue Bossa
- Peg of My Heart
- This Happy Madness
- Broadway
- Back on Top
- Sarah (Vaughan)
- Start Of Something Big
- On A Misty Night
- Easy Street
- There Will Never Be Another You
- The Man In The Empty Suit
- Scrapple from the Apple
- This Could Be the Start of Something Big
- Presidential Sax
- I Believe
- Dorothy's Den
- Come Fly With Me
- Tokyo Rose Sings the Rocky Mountain Blues
- You Go to My Head
- Man with a Horn
- As Time Goes By
- Street Of Dreams
- Let It Snow
- Slaughter on Tenth Avenue
- A and R
- Back To Bop
- On Green Dolphin Street
- Starburst
- Signature of the Lord
- I Love Bebop
- Sunday In New York
- Flying Down To Rio
- Be-bop
- Florida Keys
- O Christmas Tree
- Uncle Freddy
- Remembering Oliver Nelson
- Autumn Leaves
- Waltz For A Rainy Be-Bop Evening
- Blue Moon
- Naugahyde Reality
- Flamingo
- Keeper of the Flame
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