Buddy Bolden and the Birth of Jazz
Stuff You Missed in History Class
iHeartPodcasts
4.2 • 24.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Bolden is often referred to as the first jazz performer, and his playing is legendary. But his life story, cluttered by lack of documentation and misinformation, played out tragically after his ascension to the apex of the New Orleans music scene.
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| 0:30.7 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HowStuffWorks.com. |
| 0:36.1 | Hello and welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:44.2 | I'm Holly Frye. |
| 0:45.4 | And I'm Tracy V. Wilson. |
| 0:47.0 | So a couple of years back, when I was doing some research for a project |
| 0:50.6 | completely unrelated to the podcast, just kind of side projects that I was |
| 0:54.3 | bringing on with friends, I came across the story of Buddy Bolden. |
| 0:58.1 | And he immediately went onto my list of future topics. |
| 1:01.5 | And then recently, as you may recall, because we aired the episode, |
| 1:05.2 | we went to New Orleans to do a live show at the National World War II Museum. |
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