Kid Sheik Cola

A slashing, aggressive lead trumpeter, always at the front of a jam session. Kid Colar took some informal lessons from Wooden Joe Nicholas, then started his first band in 1925 in New Orleans. He spent the next 18 years playing in the Storyville district. Colar attended the US Air Force Music School from 1943 to 1945, then headed another band before joining George Lewis at Manny's Tavern in 1949. Colar was part of the Eureka Brass Band and Harold Dejan's Olympia Brass Band in the '50s. During the '60s he recorded with his own groups the Swingsters and Storyville Ramblers, then ...