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| Background information |
| Birth name: | Charles Joseph Bolden |
| Called: | King Bolden |
| Born: | 06.September 1877,
in  New Orleans, Louis IANA, U.S.A. |
| Died: | 04.November, 1931
in Jackson, Mississippi, U.S.A. |
| Occupation: | Cornetist |
| Instruments: | Cornet |
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| Discografie |
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| Biografie |
Bolden is to have been the legendary all first Bandleader of the jazz. Its jazz volume was created probably 1895 and accompanied in new Orleans parades and Tanzveranstaltungen. From 1900 to 1906 he was a most popular musician of the city. Contemporaries describe it as someone, which played a very clear and loud sound. Bolden did not make Schallplattenaufnahmen, so that no examples of its music are delivered. 1907 were taken up Bolden to a psychiatric hospital, in which he lived up to his death (diagnosis at that time „Dementia Praecox “, alcohol-caused Psychose). The line its jazz volume took over the Posaunist Frankie Dusen.
The musician and jazz history (n) - storyteller Jelly Roll Morton dedicated the song to him „Buddy Bolden Blues “, which decreases/goes back on Boldens composition „Funky Butt “. It is protagonist of the novel „Buddy Boldens Blues “(Coming Through Slaughter, 1976) from Michael Ondaatje.
It lies in an unknown grave in gets Cemetery in new Orleans, where for it 1998 a monument were established.
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