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Bolden is a 2019 American drama film based on the life of cornetist Buddy Bolden (1877–1931). One of the seminal figures in jazz history, Bolden left no surviving recordings, having been committed in 1907 at age 30 to the Louisiana State Insane Asylum, where he spent the rest of his life after a diagnosis of acute alcoholic psychosis. [1]
May 3, 2019 · Bolden: Directed by Dan Pritzker. With Gary Carr, Erik LaRay Harvey, Ian McShane, Michael Rooker. A mythical account of the life of Buddy Bolden, the first Cornet King of New Orleans.
May 3, 2019 · Not much is known about Buddy Bolden, the legendary cornetists Dan Pritzker’s film credits as the inventor of jazz. It’s not much to go on for a movie, but Pritzker takes some creative liberties with those blank pages in history and fills them with an impressionistic rendering of the man’s life.
May 2, 2019 · For Pritzker, a songwriter and musician, Bolden’s undocumented life is a particularly American tragedy, standing in for many black men and women swallowed whole by bigotry and exploitation.
May 7, 2019 · Co-writer and director Dan Pritzker’s long-in-the-works biopic Bolden is an ostentatious production with an enigma at its center. An opening title card admits to there being little information...
May 10, 2019 · A New Orleans cornet player at the turn of the last century, the African American Bolden was famous for playing loud and earthy blues, his shirt open to expose a red flannel undershirt. Some...
May 3, 2019 · New Orleans cornet player Buddy Bolden becomes a key figure in the birth of jazz, influencing countless musicians for decades to come.
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Bolden imagines the compelling, powerful and tragic journey of Buddy Bolden, the unsung American hero who invented Jazz in the early 1900's in New Orleans. 190 IMDb 5.5 1 h 41 min 2019. X-Ray 18+. Drama · Anxious · Compelling · Sad. Available to rent or buy.
A mythical account of the life of Buddy Bolden, the first Cornet King of New Orleans.
