Jazz great Buddy Bolden--did he attend high school?; name and address
of high school?; years attended?

Hello

Buddy Bolden didn't go to high school. He left school in the year of
his thirteenth birthday, according to AllMusic.com. They say "Bolden
left school in 1890" and was born in 1877.

All Music Guide
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Br3ae4j271waw

There's a little more on his education at the 'All About Jazz'
website:
"He went to the Fiske School for Boys. This was a sort of technical
training school. There Buddy trained to be a barber."

I assume this followed on from the school he left at thirteen, but I
haven't been able to find further information on the internet about
the Fiske School.

All About Jazz (website not functioning well when I tried it.)
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/articles/gold0600.htm

The All Music Guide got their information from a comprehensive and
well reviewed biography of Bolden:

"In Search of Buddy Bolden: First Man of Jazz", by Donald Marquis.
Louisiana State University Press (1993).

I found this book described as "surely the most authoritative work on
Bolden, painstakingly researched for over 15 years by means of
interviews, articles, books about jazz and New Orleans, and an
exhaustive search of documentary records in and around Louisiana."

article: Imagining Buddy Bolden (1877 - 1931), by Dave Radlauer
http://www.jazzhot.bigstep.com/generic.html?pid=9

I think that asking a library or bookstore for the Don Marquis
biography is your best chance of tracking down further details of
Buddy Bolden's childhood and education.
There are more details at Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0807118575/qid=1038511874/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-5235161-4384024?v=glance&s=books

I hope this is helpful. Please feel free to ask for clarification if
anything is unclear or if you have trouble with the links.

Regards - Leli


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