Kid Sheik, Preservation Hall

From Preservation Hall Portrait series. Cola, George ("Kid Sheik") - trumpet; b. September 15, 1908, New Orleans. George Cola's father and sisters always called him "son," but to musicians and jazz enthusiasts he is known as "sheik." As leader of his own band, the Storyville Ramblers, his themesong is The Sheik of Araby, but he confides that the nickname was not won at music.