Charles Joseph 'Buddy' Bolden was a cornetist and regarded as one of the key figures in the development of the New Orleans rag-time music, or jazz. Bolden was born on September 6, 1877, in New Orleans to Westmore Bolden, who worked as a driver for his former master and Alice Harris. His father died when […]
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