Every once in a while, a movie comes along whose very existence has to be seen as a minor miracle. Writer-director Dan Pritzker's "Bolden" is that kind of film. Not only did it take 11 years to make - ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Buddy Bolden, often hailed as the first jazz musician, is the subject of a new fictionalized historical novel, “The Bolden Cylinder,” by author Norman Woolworth. The novel is ...

Dan Pritzker, co-producer, co-writer, and director of "Bolden" with Wynton Marsalis, who wrote, arranged and performed the music in the film. There are no known recordings of Buddy Bolden's work.

As much as jazz could possibly have an inventor, that person would be Charles "Buddy" Bolden. But although he is celebrated as a seminal figure in jazz at the turn of the 20th century, very little is ...

Walter Isaacson sits down with one of the greatest jazz musicians of our time, Wynton Marsalis, to discuss his role as executive producer of “Bolden,” a film that reimagines the tragic life of Buddy ...

The most preposterous scene in the new movie “Bolden” may not be the one where the eponymous hero is thrown from the gondola of a hot-air balloon and parachutes down blowing his pristine jazz cornet ...

Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Staggerlee: America loves its mythic, larger-than-life heroes. And to music fans, the biggest is the giant who did nothing less than invent jazz — Buddy Bolden. But like many ...

Jazzman Wynton Marsalis faced one of the most unusual challenges of his career when he agreed to score “Bolden,” the drama based on the life of early jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden: No recordings survive, ...

Buddy Bolden is a mystery. While the early 20th-century New Orleans cornet player is generally considered to be the first true jazz musician, there are no known recordings of his music. Despite ...