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Buddy Bolden
The myth. The spark. The sound that became jazz.
Cornetist, BandleaderNew Orleans, USA
About
Charles Joseph "Buddy" Bolden (1877-1931) is often credited as the first great voice of jazz: a cornetist whose sound helped turn ragtime, blues and brass-band traditions into something unmistakably new.
No confirmed recordings of Bolden survive. What remains is a story carried in New Orleans memory: a bandleader with a huge tone, a fierce rhythmic feel, and a gift for improvisation that made crowds move. Musicians spoke of his horn as a beacon, a call that travelled through warm night air and pulled people toward the dance halls.
Bolden's era was the city's crucible: parades and picnics, saloons and social clubs, hymn cadences and street beats, all colliding into a new language.
This is a demo site, a tribute built to show what a musician's page on TJP can hold. Its records and dates are the demo's own.
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Buddy Bolden was the most powerful trumpet player I've ever heard or ever was known.
Bolden caused whole stampedes with that horn. People would leave their homes and follow the sound.
On a clear night, you could hear his cornet from across the river.
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Buddy Bolden's band, New Orleans, around 1905 The levee at New Orleans, 1900 The Superior Orchestra, with Bunk Johnson, 1910 Camp Street from Canal Street, around 1905 The new skating rink at Lincoln Park, in the paper, 1906 A grand picnic at Lincoln and Johnson Parks, May 1904
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