“In the [jail] itself, we saw that the songs, quite literally, kept the men alive and normal.” – Alan Lomax

Despite Buddy Bolden being a brilliant founder of Jazz music, he is a virtual ghost — no recordings exist, only one photo of him survived, and after spending much of his life in an insane asylum, he was buried in an unmarked grave.

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