Buddy Bolden

Charles "Buddy" Bolden (September 6, 1877 - November 4, 1930) was a trumpeter and the first New Orleans jazz musician ever to come to prominence.

Bolden in fiction

Bolden has inspired fictional characters with his name, to varying degrees based on him. Most famously, Canadian author Michael Ondaatje's novel Coming Through Slaughter features a Buddy Bolden character in some ways like the real one and in other ways deliberately contrary to the known facts of Bolden's life.

Related Topics:
Fictional character - Canadian - Michael Ondaatje - Coming Through Slaughter

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