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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.
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- Dan Pritzker
- 2019-05-03
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]
BOLDEN, an upcoming drama directed by Dan Pritzker, imagines the compelling, powerful and tragic journey of Buddy Bolden, the unsung American hero who invented Jazz.
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.
Experience the gripping battle royale scene and discover the incredible untold story of Buddy Bolden's journey and influence in music through Jim Crow era New Orleans in BOLDEN, the...
New Orleans cornet player Buddy Bolden becomes a key figure in the birth of jazz, influencing countless musicians for decades to come. Rent Bolden on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, Apple TV, or...
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Bolden, directed by Dan Pritzker, imagines the compelling, powerful and tragic journey of Buddy Bolden, the unsung American hero who invented Jazz. With little biographical information known and...