biography
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Bolden, Buddy
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popular name of Charles Joseph Bolden
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| male
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| lived:
| (1877–1931)
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| biography:
| Jazz cornetist, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He is a putative founder of jazz, a figure of mythic significance. He reputedly played his trumpet so powerfully that he could be heard for 10 miles in all directions. No recorded evidence survives, though scholars spent decades searching for an Edison cylinder said to have been made at the beginning of the 20th-c. In 1907, his uncontrollable fits of violence led to his incarceration for life, and he died in a fire at an asylum. |
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