[Dixielandjazz] LETTER TO THE NY TIMES EDITOR RE:Buddy Bolden

[Steve Barbone]

Now here's a note that Dan Hardie and/or Bill Haesler might find
interesting.

Was jazz born in a Denver Whorehouse? :-) VBG

Cheers,
Steve Barbone  



BUDDY BOLDEN

Jazz¹s Creation Myth

To the Editor:

Re ³In Search of the Man Who May Have Created Jazz,² by Michael Cieply
[April 22]:

The newspaperman Bat Masterson said he first heard jazz in Mamie Silk¹s
Denver whorehouse in the 1880s. This squares with Jell Roll Morton¹s
recollection in ³Mamie Desdume¹s Blues.² Could this birth, on the wrong side
of the bed, explain why jazz¹s origins may have been deliberately obscured?

Marc Furstenberg

Manhattan