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.

This quality embroidered hat features Chance Records and Chicago, Illinois. Chance Records was a Chicago-based blues label that captured the raw, postwar electric blues sound coming out of the city in the 1950s. It’s closely associated with influential Chicago blues artists and represents a pivotal moment when the blues moved from Southern roots to an urban, electrified edge.