Kid Sheik

George Colar, better known as "Kid Sheik" or "Kid Sheik Cola", (15 September 1908 - 7 November 1996) was a New Orleans jazz trumpeter. He is most associated with Dixieland jazz and was a long-term performer with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.

In youth he took informal lessons from Wooden Joe Nicholas and briefly had a band of his own. He worked with George Lewis in the mid-1940s. Over the years, Kid Sheik performed with many jazz notables, including Harold Dejan's Olympia Brass Band and Louis Armstrong. By the 1960s he had a band of his own worth noting.

In his later years, he was married to pianist Sadie Goodson.

Kid Sheik was the subject of the official New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival poster in 1990.

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