Grammy-winning musician PJ Morton was supposed to be the savior of the Buddy Bolden house. Four years ago, he unveiled a vision for restoring the dilapidated Central City structure owned by his ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Buddy Bolden, often hailed as the first jazz musician, is the subject of a new fictionalized historical novel, “The Bolden Cylinder,” by author Norman Woolworth. The novel is ...

Five years ago, the future seemed bright for a decrepit 19th-century shotgun house that was once home to a jazz legend. A New Orleans-born R&B star pledged to protect the vulnerable property by ...

Gary Carr stars as Charles "Buddy" Bolden in the jazz biopic Bolden: Where The Music Began, in theaters Friday. As much as jazz could possibly have an inventor, that person would be Charles "Buddy" ...