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- Byname of:
- Charles Joseph Bolden
- Born:
- September 6, 1877, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
- Died:
- November 4, 1931, Jackson, Louisiana (aged 54)
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Buddy Bolden Band
Buddy Bolden Band, New Orleans, c. 1905: (back row from left to right) Jimmie Johnson, Buddy Bolden, Brock Mumford, and Willie Cornish and (front row from left to right) Frank Lewis and Willie Warner.
Buddy Bolden
American musician
Also known as: Charles Bolden
Buddy Bolden (born September 6, 1877, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.ādied November 4, 1931, Jackson, Louisiana) was a cornetist and one of the founding fathers of jazz. Many jazz musicians, including Jelly Roll Morton and the great trumpeter Louis Armstrong, acclaimed him as one of the most powerful musicians ever to play jazz.
Little is known about the details of Boldenās career, but it is documented that by about 1895 he was leading a band. Acknowledged as the cornet king of New Orleans, Bolden often worked with six or seven different bands simultaneously. In 1906 his emotional stability began to crumble, and the following year he was committed to the East Louisiana State Hospital, where he died in 1931.
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