Lorenza E. Jordan Cole (August 6, 1897 – April 10, 1994) was an American concert pianist and music educator, based for much of her career in Los Angeles.

[2] She trained as a pianist with Marie Gashweiler in Seattle,[3] and with Marguerite Melville Liszniewska at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.

[4][5] In 1930 she graduated from the Institute of Musical Art (Juilliard), with financial support arranged by Mary White Ovington of the NAACP.

[11][12] In 1931, she gave a recital in Geneva, Switzerland, featuring works by Nathaniel Dett and Samuel Coleridge- Taylor.

[16][17][18] Cole was head of the piano department at Tuskegee Institute from 1936 to 1939,[19][20] and a music educator in Los Angeles,[21][22] She taught music at Belvedere Junior High School for 22 years, and started the school's orchestra.