Jazzman Wynton Marsalis faced one of the most unusual challenges of his career when he agreed to score “Bolden,” the drama based on the life of early jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden: No recordings survive, ...

More than 100 years after he helped change the face of music, Buddy Bolden’s likeness now looms over one of the New Orleans streets where jazz was born. A crucial but enigmatic figure in the early ...

The most preposterous scene in the new movie “Bolden” may not be the one where the eponymous hero is thrown from the gondola of a hot-air balloon and parachutes down blowing his pristine jazz cornet ...

Walter Isaacson sits down with one of the greatest jazz musicians of our time, Wynton Marsalis, to discuss his role as executive producer of “Bolden,” a film that reimagines the tragic life of Buddy ...

Buddy Bolden is a mystery. While the early 20th-century New Orleans cornet player is generally considered to be the first true jazz musician, there are no known recordings of his music. Despite ...

Today, the impossible happened: "Bolden" came out in theaters nationwide. I kid, of course, but contrary to what it was becoming after more than a decade in production, "Bolden" is no joke. The ...

As much as jazz could possibly have an inventor, that person would be Charles "Buddy" Bolden. But although he is celebrated as a seminal figure in jazz at the turn of the 20th century, very little is ...

Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Staggerlee: America loves its mythic, larger-than-life heroes. And to music fans, the biggest is the giant who did nothing less than invent jazz — Buddy Bolden. But like many ...

No one could ever call “Bolden,” a vivid and inventive musical-drama about the unsung life of New Orleans jazz “inventor” Charles “Buddy” Bolden, a by-the-numbers biopic. Director Dan Pritzker, who ...