A guitarist named Charles Galloway initially formed the band that Bolden played in, around Bolden soon became the leader, however, reflecting his reportedly extroverted personality and the loud, aggressive cornet playing style that many observers noted. By he was listed as a musician in the New Orleans city directory. In great demand, Bolden and his band performed constantly, playing both dances and parades, all over town.
He concentrated, however, on the strip of clubs and taverns around the intersection of South Rampart and Perdido Streets, which was known as Back-of-Town. By , Bolden had suffered several psychotic episodes that included an assault on his mother. After several arrests, he was declared insane. In Bolden was committed to a state mental hospital in Jackson, Louisiana.
He was diagnosed with dementia praecox, now known as schizophrenia. These circumstances spawned the bizarre theory, proposed in by Dr.
Sean Spence of the University of Sheffield, U. By extension, Spence ludicrously implied, jazz is a psychiatric condition. Forego a bottle of soda and donate its cost to us for the information you just learned, and feel good about helping to make it available to everyone!
Kaubisch, B. Buddy Bolden Previous Previous post: Aaron Dixon Much of the Bolden legend comes from oral accounts passed down decades after his death, and given the shortage of primary-source documents and other reliable evidence, preposterous myths and ridiculous exaggerations about the jazz pioneer have spread and entered the public consciousness. One such story has Bolden ascending a hot-air balloon at Lincoln Park and parachuting back to earth, playing his cornet during the descent.
This scenario seems to be a conflation of two popular entertainments at the time: the musical performances of Bolden and his band, which played regularly at Lincoln Park; and the feats of a man named Buddy Bartley, who leaped from a dirigible at the park around the same time.
Other oft-repeated myths are that Bolden cut hair at a barber shop in New Orleans, and that he moonlighted as the editor of a scandal sheet called The Cricket. The truth is strange enough, of course. Bolden began to have acute mental problems around the time his family moved away from First St. On March 25, , Bolden was arrested for perhaps the first time. He had been bedridden for several weeks, according to newspaper reports on the incident from the time, including one recently discovered by this writer.
In a fit of psychosis, Bolden became convinced that he was being drugged or poisoned, and he attacked his caregiver, who was either his mother or his mother-in-law. He was booked on a charge of being insane, and alcohol abuse was cited as the reason for his insanity.
Marquis writes that Bolden probably spent just a couple of nights in jail. But things went downhill from there.
He apparently made his last public performance as a musician, at least before his institutionalization, during a parade on Labor Day He dropped out before the finish. Two more arrests followed in Cultural Arts. Mardi Gras. Find Restaurants. Where to Eat. Traditional Foods.
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