[Dixielandjazz] The Bolden cylinder - elliptical thinking

[Brian Harvey]

 I am very grateful to Anton Crouch for his reasoned comments on this
subject.
In view of the allegation that I make "elliptical" comments - whatever that
may mean - I asked New Orleans historian and Editor of New Orleans Music
magazine Doug Landau for his help. He responds thus.......

"The first comprehensive coverage appeared in the "Saturday Review"
March 1957 - "The Bolden Cylinder" by Charles Edward Smith.
As it happens this article is going to be reproduced in the
next but one issue of NOM. There is a bit on it in the last
issue of NOM - see book reviews, and the next issue will
have a bit more on it in the editorial. It is true that
Bolden did not record in the commercial sense."

The review that Doug refers to is of the Revised edition of Donald M.
Marquis book "In Search Of Buddy Bolden - First Man Of Jazz". The review
states that within the new edition "....a new name appears in the index, one
Oscar Zahn, the man who recorded Bolden on an Edison cylinder. Without
giving too much away, it seems that the Bolden cylinder was safe and sound
at a known location until the early 1960s, when it was, along with other
cylinders, in advertently destroyed."

I am unable to recall where it was I read of the verifying comments of
George Baquet and Alphonse Picou but their testimony together with that of
Willie Cornish who was at the recording should surely remove most of the
doubt about the recording having taken place.


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