Derrick “Kabuki” Shezbie remains best known as a former member of the Rebirth Brass Band, blowing the trumpet and enlivening the crowds with the Grammy-winning group. The Ghost of Buddy Bolden stands ...

Way back in the late 1800s, a young Black kid named Charles “Buddy” Bolden was honing his skills as a musician, growing up in what are now New Orleans’ Central City and Irish Channel neighborhoods.

Bolden is also known mostly through oral history, as records about him and his family were either lost or non-existent. Only one picture of him with his band is available. That band played at various ...

The enormous painting of jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden and his band, by New Orleans’ premier muralist Brandan “BMIKE” Odums, was almost completely destroyed during Hurricane Ida. The purple faces of three ...

All About Jazz is celebrating Buddy Bolden's birthday today! Cornetist Buddy Bolden is one of the premier legendary figures of jazz. Credited as the founder of “jass," later to be called jazz, he was ...

Decorated jazz composer Wynton Marsalis talks about creating music inspired by an artist he's never heard play, Charles "Buddy" Bolden, for the... Wynton Marsalis Imagines Buddy Bolden's Jazz ...

Derrick Shezbie's sophomore release as leader—a mere 26 years after his highly acclaimed debut, Spodie's Back (Warner Bros., 1994)—finds the New Orleans trumpeter in much the same territory as a ...