Riverside Drive

Cole's superbly crafted and melodically sophisticated original music reminds us of the best of George Gershwin, Johnny Mercer, and Cole Porter. His highly stylized approach, technical mastery and fast and furious guitar playing is in the tradition of Django Reinhardt. George's original music includes crooning vocals, a gift for comic gab and romantic duets with his female vocalist. Cole's music suggests a hot sultry evening in a Parisian nightclub in the 1940's and the sophistication of a technical music master. The mix of high energy guitar playing, soaring violin flights by Julian Smedley, and propulsive 'le pompe' rhythm guitar style creates a dynamic musical experience. George Cole has just returned from playing with Keely Smith at the Rrazz Room in San Francisco. He's had sold out shows at Carnegie Hall in New York and The Freight & Salvage in Berkeley. He dazzled audiences at The Grammy's Showcase most recently. George Cole is the band's lead vocalist, guitarist, composer and producer. He's toured with Joe Walsh of the Eagles, recorded with producer Roy Thomas Baker (Queen and Paul McCartney). George was the lead guitarist for Big Blue Hearts (Geffen/Interscope) and Beatnik Beatch (Atlantic) who performed with Ringo Starr and many others. He recorded on Chris Isaak's platinum selling Forever Blue Album and Lee Seung Hwan's multi-million selling Korean pop smash. He has performed with Warren Zevon and Buster Poindexter. George was guitar instructor and mentor to Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt of Green Day for ten years. George has performed on Grammy nominated releases and won a California Music Award for Best New Major Label Artist.