Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Arroe Collins Like Its Live Unplugged And Totally Uncut
Episode: Buddy Bolden Is Credited For Creating Jazz Norman Woolworth Unveils This Mystery
Description: A potentially momentous discovery. A suspicious fire. A 50-year-old missing person’s case. Are they connected? Fast-paced and vividly drawn, The Bolden Cylinder introduces a memorable cast of eccentric characters including: a malodorous collector of early R&B memorabilia, a sultry nightclub singer, a reputed mob boss, a 12-year-old tap dancer, and an inscrutable peddler of voodoo paraphernalia.When Buddy Bolden died in a Louisiana insane asylum in 1931, a quarter century after his reign as the undisputed first “king” of jazz, he left behind no known recordings. But when quirky New Orleans antiques dealer Bruneau Abellard listens to a vintag...