Buddy Bolden
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Charles Joseph "Buddy" Bolden was an American cornetist who was regarded by contemporaries and later jazz scholars as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of ragtime music, or "jass"
Statue commemorating Bolden in Louis Armstrong Park, New Orleans
Jazz
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Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, Afric
Buddy Bolden
…and later jazz scholars as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of ragtime music, or "jass", which later came to be known as jazz. When he was born, Bolden's father, Westmore Bolden, was working as a driver for William Walker, the former enslaver of Buddy's grandfather Gustavus…
Albert Gleizes, 1915, Composition for "Jazz" from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Billie Davies, an avant-garde jazz drummer
Ethel Waters sang "Stormy Weather" at the Cotton Club.
Al Jolson in 1925