[Dixielandjazz] Buddy Bolden’s Mardi Gras March - a new contender for the Bolden Repertoire

[D and R Hardie]

Hello All,
                  Mr John Bradshaw of San Antonio Texas has just 
released details of his recollections of a conversation
with Avery Kid Howard  in the 1950's about a tune he recalled was 
played by the Bolden Band. John approached me some time back for 
assistance in getting out a score based on his memory of the tune he 
calls Buddy Bolden's Mardi Gras March.
We do not  agree entirely about some questions concerning the Bolden  
authorship of the tune, part of which resembles part of a theme from  
Darkie's Mardi Gras by Theodore Wenzlik. Nevertheless the two themes 
Howard did recall do have some face validity, so I have put  an account 
of them along with my analysis of their relation to Wenzlik's Rag up on 
my web site at:
http://tinyurl.com/nqaup
See what you think
Dan Hardie