Natalie Cole

It's also because the opening act Gregory Porter has a rich chocolate-coloured baritone that often sounds eerily like Cole senior.

Then she and Latin jazz legend Chucho Valdes, linked by their fathers’ past collaborations, shared the stage for the first time.

She can dress herself up as a jazz singer all she wants, she can scat (though it’s rarely a good idea), and she can even swing the standards.

Her sumptuous, buttery, vocals are the kind of rare treasure that needs only the twinkling of a piano, the snapping of fingers and the thump-thump-thump of a stand-up bass.

Natalie Cole gives a packed Hard Rock Rocksino a night to remember (concert review, photos)

Natalie Cole may have had an up-and-down musical career, but her voice has never been in question.

If there's any entertainer with nine lives to her name, it's undoubtedly Natalie Cole, who's survived everything from a harrowing hotel fire to drug abuse to an even more recent kidney transplant. And her musical career's been just as resilient over the years, starting off as a soul star in the 1970s, amassin