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Buddy Bolden

Posted in Jazz History: Biography with tags , , , , on December 21, 2007 by A. M. Perkins

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Charles ‘Buddy’ Bolden (September 6, 1877-November 4, 1931) was the first important name is jazz history and was a cornetist and pioneer of the kind of New Orleans rag time music that eventually came to be known as jazz. Read more »