[78-L] fwd: Buddy Bolden cylinder found

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Apr 1 12:39:43 PDT 2013


Has anyone analyzed Buddy's chamber pot to see if it retained any vibrations? 
One never knows.

dl

On 4/1/2013 3:36 PM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
> As we all know Jenny Lind visited New Orleans in 1851 for a series of
> concertperformances at the St Charles Theatre, and stayed in one of the
> newly erected Pontalba buildings(5 St Peter Street) near the river.
> See:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micaela_Almonester,_Baroness_de_Pontalba
>
> Buddy Bolden wasn't born yet, but his grandfather worked as a porterfor
> the Baroness Pontalba at the time, and is reported to have met Jenny
> Lind and even heard her practising in her apartment. This made a deep
> impact on Mr Bolden,something he kept telling both his son and grandson
> about all his life. Around 1871 Buddy Bolden's father also became a
> regular visitor to the New Orleans opera houses.
> See
> http://books.google.se/books?id=3Mw4nQMvDWoC&pg=PA158&lpg=PA158&dq=%22jenny+lind%22+%22new+orleans%22+1851&source=bl&ots=GPhEnEcDtS&sig=gFNqLr_ILz87QnlHQ4P8O0kqSnA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ntNZUfyECOSE4gTiw4H4BQ&ved=0CGEQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22jenny%20lind%22%20%22new%20orleans%22%201851&f=false
> for a drawing showing a Negro audience at the French Opera House in New
> Orleans in the late 19th century.
>
> As an homage to the Swedish Nightingale, who brought music to the Bolden
> family, Buddy Bolden often played a Swedish Folk tune on his cornet,
> actually the same song Jenny Lindsang at St Charles': "The herdsman's
> song".
> In opera-crazy New Orleans this was a given success.
> See:
> http://archive.org/stream/jennylindinameri017072mbp/jennylindinameri017072mbp_djvu.txt
>
> Bolden's "lost recording" most certainly is a version of "The Herdsman's
> Song"- his deeply emotional interpretation having led some listeners to
> even think they heard Jenny Lind sing.
> Kristjan
>
>
> On 2013-04-01 17:38, Bud Black wrote:
>> Actually, the vocal sounds a bit like Jenny Lind.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Apr 1, 2013, at 10:24 AM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
>>
>>> No, the one they found was the instrumental version for German issue.
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> On 4/1/2013 9:46 AM, L78rpm at aol.com wrote:
>>>> Does it have a vocal chorus by Billy Murray?
>>>>
>>>> pc
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In a message dated 4/1/2013 9:13:39 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>>>> dlennick at sympatico.ca writes:
>>>>
>>>> On  4/1/2013 7:31 AM, Jim Eigo Jazz Promo Services wrote:
>>>>>
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