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George works in a number of musical styles. His bread and butter performances are based on the Classic American Songbook - works by Gershwin, Porter, Jerome Kern, Fats Waller and the like. This music will never die - it has a universal appeal across age group and nationalities.

The blues has been with George all his life all the way back to his first band in the Czech Republic, ''Blues Exit''. He listened to the Stones, which led him to Muddy Waters and he's been performing in the blues idiom ever since. In the 1970's he led ''The Middle East Blues Band'' in Tel Aviv, Israel - a hugely popular group whose members felt they were the only true flame bearers for the blues in the Middle East.

George has been writing original music all his life. He has written for TV and theatre and has recorded three CD's of original material, with two more on the way. Influenced by everyone from the Beatles to Bob Dylan to Elton John to Michael Franks, George strives for his music to be lyrically compelling and harmonically interesting.

"EUROPA"

My band, Bohemian Swing, is currently in the studio, hard at work on a new CD to be released in June or July 2010. The disc will be called "EUROPA" and most tunes on it will bear the name of a European city in their title. Here is a small sample of what we are working on...

"Nightingales of Madrid" - this was a hit for Czech singer Waldemar Matuska in the late 1960's. The song was credited to Matuska but it's based on a Spanish/French gypsy melody. I wrote the English text and kept the original spirit of a carefree drinking song.

"Sarajevo Waltz" - inspired by the sad recent and not so recent history of that city. The tune is based on two separate motifs: the intro, played by a melodica and the intertwining Eastern melodies of violin and trumpet later in the second section. This piece is as close as I've come to writing "serious" music. Challenging and rewarding work

"Long Nights In Berlin" - inspired by the rich and often tragic tapestry of events that have taken place in that city. It's told from the point of view of an imaginary soldier who walks through the streets at night, commenting on the various sites and events. I suspect many residents - especially from former East Berlin - might concur with the "still plenty of misery" line in the bridge.

The band (in addition to yours truly on guitar and vocals):

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