SUN LAKES, Ariz. (AP) — Jazz pianist-composer Isaac Cole, brother of the late singer Nat King Cole who worked on his niece Natalie's multiple Grammy-winning 1991 album, died Sunday of cancer. He was 73.
Ike Cole said he may have benefited from being compared with his more famous brother, who died in 1965 of lung cancer at 45, but that he disliked being accused of "trying to live off the name."
Ike Cole said he decided against changing his name because, shortly before dying, Nat asked him not to.