A shotgun house that legendary jazz cornetist Buddy Bolden once called home has been seized by New Orleans' government and might be sold in a public auction. Bolden, a pioneer of jazz from the turn of ...

Way back in the late 1800s, a young Black kid named Charles “Buddy” Bolden was honing his skills as a musician, growing up in what are now New Orleans’ Central City and Irish Channel neighborhoods.

The Associated Press This image released by Abramorama shows Gary Carr portraying jazz pioneer Charles “Buddy” Bolden in a scene from “Bolden.” NEW ORLEANS — More than two decades after the seed was ...

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 ...