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Charles "Buddy" Bolden was a pioneer of the early sound of jazz. Buddy was a prominent trumpeter and is hailed as the king of jazz. Born in 1877 dying in 1931 in New Orleans very little is know for sure about his early life. In the early years of his playing with his band fusing the styles of music he heard ragtime blues and gospel creating the culmination of these genres to create jazz. A lot of credit with the founding of the jazz art form was  his iconic playing in Lincoln Park. Was iconic meeting ground for people in early Gert Town. This is where we see the concrete connection to Gert Town. Lincoln park was located at Carrollton Avenue and Fern, Forshey, and Oleander Streets with located near another iconic park for African american. It is said the buddy would play his trumpet or cornet and would call crowds from Johnson park and the surrounding areas of Gert town and New Orleans to him playing in Lincoln park making him a true icon for gert town inspiring a Jazz and the people of New Orleans