Derrick “Kabuki” Shezbie remains best known as a former member of the Rebirth Brass Band, blowing the trumpet and enlivening the crowds with the Grammy-winning group. The Ghost of Buddy Bolden stands ...

The story of the birth of jazz has finally made its way to the big screen. And for those of us who are not aware, Charles “Buddy” Bolden was a New Orleans native who fused blues, ragtime and gospel ...

All About Jazz is celebrating Buddy Bolden's birthday today! Cornetist Buddy Bolden is one of the premier legendary figures of jazz. Credited as the founder of “jass," later to be called jazz, he 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 ...

“John Akomfrah: Precarity,” Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, through August 26. Against a quiet background of banjo picking, spirituals and jazz, the internationally acclaimed cinematographer, ...

Decorated jazz composer Wynton Marsalis talks about creating music inspired by an artist he's never heard play, Charles "Buddy" Bolden, for the... Wynton Marsalis Imagines Buddy Bolden's Jazz ...

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 ...

A production company is looking for extras to fill in as background actors in a film about jazz great Buddy Bolden, said Bill Marinella of Marinella Hume Casting. “Because it’s a period piece, we ...