Buddy Bolden
Posted on 27 February, 2012
Mar 3, 2008 . No one is really sure what this city's first “cornet king,” Charles (Buddy) sounded like 100 years ago, much less what made him tick . Charles "Buddy" (September 6, 1877 – November 4, 1931) was an African American cornetist and is regarded by contemporaries as a key figure in the . Charles “Buddy” Bolden was born to Alice and Westmore Bolden in uptown New Orleans on September 6, 1877.
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