It was first pieced together in New Orleans by the cornetist King Buddy Bolden, who was born the year Reconstruction ended, and who drew on both the Blues traditions of Black evangelical churches ...

Remembering Dorothy Anna Williams, a devoted matriarch and the mother of Diane Hocker, a longtime director of community and ...

Alexander is an acclaimed poet, scholar, and cultural advocate. She is the president of the Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest funder of the arts and humanities, which recently launched a $35 ...

I explained that “funky” means smelly. Buddy Bolden, arguably the first jazzman of them all, played at the Funky Butt, a music hall named for his song that begs us to “open up that window ...

Think of this in terms of the contrast between Buddy Bolden, who is believed to be the very first jazz musician and Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones. Bolden began playing Gospel, blues, and marching ...

Williams went 5-for-7 with three RBI and two runs scored against Auburn in his first two starts before taking his talents to ...

When Mackie signed on to play Buddy Bolden – the man who supposedly invented jazz music but left no surviving recordings after he was committed to the Louisiana State Insane Asylum in 1907 – he could ...

Photo / Supplied According to legend, Makin’ Runs is a tune attributed to Buddy Bolden, heard by Bunk Johnson in New Orleans. The phrase symbolises Bolden’s vision for inventive improvisations ...