Okay, so maybe it only SEEMS like yesterday…not-quite-famous professional touring musician trashes his voice, abandons the traveling entertainer passion, turns to computer wizardry as a lesser of employment evils.  A man’s gotta make a livin’ – even if it’s not performing. 

Segue from the sepia tones of “then” to the color of “now” and you find Bobby Cole back behind keys, mics, and consoles once again.  San Francisco ingénue jazz vocalist Nichole Cheri coaxed him out of self-imposed musical reclusion and exile to share her stage backline. 

Six years later Bobby traded California for Colorado.  Just left.  Hasn’t looked back.  Worked the local Denver club circuit with Scotty McWalter and Burning Abigail and with Jimmy Morgan and The Receders.  After an all-too-brief year-and-a-half with The Receders, Bobby Cole dropped out of music again for two years only to decide in a moment of self-aggrandizing lunacy to audition for Buckner Funken Jazz. 

Look, it made perfect sense at the time – Buckner Funken Jazz was the only band in Colorado he’d really like to work for.  Hey, he knew he certainly wasn’t good enough to work with BFJ – but he barricaded himself in their rehearsal studio and they couldn’t get rid of him. 

Now, Buckner Funken Jazz has a new keyboardist in the lineup, a new CD in the works and Bobby Cole’s got a new itch to scratch.  “Cut!!  All right, everybody -- that’s a wrap!”

Bobby Welcome to Buckner Funken Jazz now lets do some FUNKEN !