Grammy-winning musician PJ Morton was supposed to be the savior of the Buddy Bolden house. Four years ago, he unveiled a vision for restoring the dilapidated Central City structure owned by his ...

The City of New Orleans on Wednesday gave owners of the Buddy Bolden house until Oct. 12 to submit their full plans for restoring the former childhood home of the father of jazz. Wade Jordan, a ...

Gary Carr stars as Charles "Buddy" Bolden in the jazz biopic Bolden: Where The Music Began, in theaters Friday. As much as jazz could possibly have an inventor, that person would be Charles "Buddy" ...

Buddy Bolden was an African-American cornet player. A cornet is similar to a trumpet but smaller. He was born in New Orelans in 1877 and rose to prominence in the first decade of the 20th century. He ...

Bolden Directed by Daniel Pritzker Abramorama; King Bolden LLC Release Date: May 3, 2019 Bolden is a film about jazz legend and cornetist Buddy Bolden, released on May 3rd, 2019. There was only one ...

The story of the birth of jazz has finally made its way to the big screen. And for those of us who are not aware, Charles “Buddy” Bolden was a New Orleans native who fused blues, ragtime and gospel ...

“John Akomfrah: Precarity,” Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, through August 26. Against a quiet background of banjo picking, spirituals and jazz, the internationally acclaimed cinematographer, ...

In 2016, five-time Grammy-winning musician PJ Morton was living the dream in L.A., as keyboardist for Maroon 5 and a burgeoning solo act. But something called him to head back to his native New ...

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana -- It's going to be a really rough day in New Orleans. That's how Monday morning was described as daylight revealed the pile of rubble where historic jazz landmarks once stood.

At the turn of the 20th century, late at night after polite crowds had left the dance halls of New Orleans, a young bandleader named Buddy Bolden would lift his cornet and let it rip for the dancers ...

All About Jazz is celebrating Buddy Bolden's birthday today! Cornetist Buddy Bolden is one of the premier legendary figures of jazz. Credited as the founder of “jass," later to be called jazz, he was ...

On a recent cloudless day, 32 British tourists stepped off a tour bus in Central City and, for reasons not immediately obvious to bystanders, spread out to view a dull yellow shotgun double at 2309 ...