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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 08:42 PM
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Buddy Bolden's Blues
I've heard 'em all....

Jim Kweskin was the cat's meow....agreed?

If not, who?
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 08:58 PM
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1. Alwright, just who was Buddy Bolden?
I have no clue....
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MasonJar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 10:01 PM
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2. Buddy Bolden was an early Jazz star
in New Orleans in the 1800s; he was a great trumpeter, but began to worry that others would surpass him and he eventually walked away one day from a parade. He became so despondent that his mother worried that he would hurt himself or her so she had him put in the La. mental institution. He spent the rest of his life there. Remember those places were awful in those days. I got this from the KET 19 part jazz documentary.
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-13-03 10:11 PM
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3. kewl, I guess...
Sad actually....bud Buddy does live on!
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-14-03 01:06 AM
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4. kickeroo....
Maybee the coolest big band jazz tune I've ever heard...
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-14-03 01:38 AM
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5. You know who should have done it....and never did?
The David Bromberg Band. I'm pissed....that'd been an outstanding tune for the Band to do. Unfortunate....Like to know why they didn't.
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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-15-03 12:32 AM
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6. One of the legends of Buddy Bolden
was that he played his trumpet so loud he could be heard clear across the Mississippi . I lived in NOLA for a while and had the only bio I know of Buddy. Tragic. He was the first jazz "star."
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