Welcome To The Club (With The Count Basie Orchestra)

By the time Welcome to the Club was recorded, Nat "King" Cole was already recognized by the general public as more of a singer and entertainer than a jazz pianist. Only a few rare exceptions, such as the 1956 small group album After Midnight, feature Cole as a pianist (despite his superb skill on the instrument). For the remainder of his

successful career - which ended with his sudden death in 1965 due to lung cancer - he continued singing more and more, and playing less and less.