Buddy Bolden

There are no recordings of Bolden playing. Here's Wynton Marsalis playing "Tinelessness" from the movie "Bolden."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itknHME9Rpg

The movie is tough to watch. Bolden spent the last 24 years of his life in the state mental hospital in Jackson, Louisiana, probably suffering from schizophrenia.

[Dione Giorgio]

Sad about the way he ended his. Great memorial to him.

[katy]

I remember thinking that was a movie I wanted to watch, but you may have changed my mind. I’m glad you found his marker.

[Diane]

@grammyn I finished the movie today. There was a lot to like about it, but the darkness of his years in the hospital sort of dominated it. It took me months to get in the right mood to watch it!

[katy]

@eudora I can imagine it is difficult to watch by someone as sensitive as you

[Ann H. LeFevre]

The movie sounds like one we watched on the life of Vincent Van Gogh who also suffered from some sort of mental illness (I wish that wasn't a "side effect" of creative genius!). That was a tough one to watch as well. But the best of them lives on in their art and the memory of it. So, it's good that someone erected this stone as a memorial to him.