On Bolden's Trail

by Joe B.

Ever since Mr. Ken Burn’s Documentary film “JAZZ” I’ve wondered about “Buddy Bolden” an early cornet player and innovator of the then new form of music then know as “SASS” or Ragtime.

I may be wrong but it was some kind of product or drink that supposedly helped lifted spirits and made the libido act up.

Ragtime: was simple syncopation, rarely rhythmically complex.

Right hand danced across piano keys while the left hand supports and never sycopated.

Ragtime, essentially piano music was hard, bright, cheerfull and machine-like.

At first it was European in essence, though most practitioners were Black.

This new (1895) New Orleans born style of music is different in that it was not played exactly as a composer had written it, in the hands of talented player the music escaped narrow boxes imposed by its creator(s).

From[About Jazz.com & www. Pbs. Org/jazz/ biography/artist id_ bolden _buddy.htm]

I do the above so as not to be accused of or sued for plagiarism.

I don’t know if the late Buddy Bolden is an ancestor but to see his and other Boldens popping up gets me wondering the question all the same.

There’s a half sister maybe a brother or two in New York I’ve never met, a late?

Grandfather from West Africa who moved back in the late 1950’s or early 60’s I’m really hazy with those parts of my family tree.

I might visit Africa in a few years, being mono lingual could be seen as “A Lost Hibrid, relative from America” maybe I’ll luck out and American will be spoken but just in case I have to try my true mother tongue not this one my captured and long suffering sister and brothers learned on pain of death to speak.

He was born September, 6, 1877 Charles, Joseph, Bolden from Westmore and Alice Bolden. He lived, moved alot, had a turbulent life, covered keys on his horn with cloth so others could’nt copy how he played when he fingered his keys.

I tend to believe this sadly was true given the fact that everytime we as a people come up with inventions, innocations, creative and intellectual solutions they tend to ripped off by Europeans for economic gain and then not attributing.

In 1907 his health deteriorated and he was committed to a mental institution where he spent the remainder of his life.
In 1931, December, 23, Buddy Bolden died.

As you can see the man’s life was rough, tough, hard, and too short. (He was 54 when he died.) Do young bro’s and sista’s have it any better? I still being a moving target beats waiting for “The Blues” to make our neighborhoods into killing fields again.

We must spread out everywhere for years, create a possitive Diaspora across the planet everywhere.

April, 29, 2002 - A decade since the Rodney King Verdict setting four policemen free of a public beat-down of one man.

It wasn’t all about Rodney King, he was the endpoint of a long string of abuse by so called law enforcement making all young Black and Latino’s, families it didn’t matter if a brother, sister were in blue jeans or a three piece suit folks get jacked up for what being being Black, Brown, or Poor White.

It happened April, 29, 2002.

We don’t have much so lets not destroy our own neighborhoods - lets go to Beverly Hills.

(not the gorgeous, brainy, large busty star of flesh flicks and spot lighted stage.)

But rich strips of land, businesses not owned by us or lived on by us though worked in and on by us.

Yeah, we don’t forget this shit because [THE SHIT KEEPS HAPPENING!]

I don’t know about Buddy Bolden being related to Joseph O. Bolden but we’re still ‘livin this out of date nightmare, there is little difference between the Palestinian’s/Israeli conflict and Police, National Guards, units invading Black and Brown ghetto’s and Barrios.

Both feel like invading/occupying military brought in from outside to damp down situations coming to a boil after years of simmering.

Few people are armed with weapons of any kind and those with them know to lay low or they're targeted for wounding or killed.

On a psychic level, a few armed men, women fully outfitted feel they are on "alien soil" [Join The Club] Rainbow folks always feel this way.

Now we, living in our own neighborhoods become walking paper shadows made alive.
(practice tarkets)

A literal concrete jungle and no longer a neighborhood full of adults, children, and families.

Every Inner City Ghetto, Barrio, and non-white, to Poor White areas become Kill Zones for practicing para law/military forces.

People, we got to set up-self defence networks, natural food farms with hydoponics, economic and political alternate parties.

It’s as if the government is participating in a huge die-in and most of the particpant are unwilling pawns in KILL ZONE AMERICRUD, LAND OF BLUE DEATH.

I don’t know, these cops seem to be harking back or unchanged in seeking targets of color no matter their age.

Let them do some dying, their mother’s, brother’s, sister’s, and father’s go to their funerals.

Is that the only languge that is understood by law enforcement Americrude.

We have to change because law enforcement won’t, we’ve seen their anwer is a primitive stomp your ass into a mud puddle.

Umm, I think I’ve gotten off Buddy Bolden just a bit.

All I’m saying is - all you gangs, families, colors, whites, sexes, put our brains together because America’s gone mad dog, foaming for death, either at home or abroad.

We, the people, all the people must come together and never be divided or reconquered by wrong thinking Evangelical Religious Right Wing, Anti-Alternative Renewable Energy, - Oil Loving Backwards Flowing, Death Dealers in Doom-For-Boon Mad Rats.

I hope a young woman far away from Belly-Beast America is having a wonderous time.

I question, what’s happening in Africa and South Africa in general? I’d like to know because, well I’m just curious... Bye.