Wynton Marsalis plays “Buddy Bolden, First Man of Jazz” at Umbria Jazz, Perugia in 1993. Wynton Marsalis has been described as the most outstanding jazz musician and trumpeter of his generation, as one of the world’s top classical trumpeters, as a big band leader in the tradition of Duke Ellington, a brilliant composer, a devoted advocate for the Arts and a tireless and inspiring educator. Charles "Buddy" Bolden (September 6, 1877–November 4, 1931) was a African American cornetist and is regarded by contemporaries as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of rag-time music which later came to be known as jazz. |
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