The Best Unknown

ever located and who might still be alive. Russell noted all this information down in his meticulously kept journals of this period, but never published any of it.

I could go on for pages more about the search for Buddy Bolden, but I will close with an account given to Russell by the old Creole clarinetist, George Baquet, in December 1940. At this time Baquet was playing at Wilson’s Cafe in Philadelphia, and Russell interviewed him during an intermission. Baquet, who had left New Orleans in 1914, remembered Bolden well.

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ever located and who might still be alive. Russell noted all this information down in his meticulously kept journals of this period, but never published any of it.

I could go on for pages more about the search for Buddy Bolden, but I will close with an account given to Russell by the old Creole clarinetist, George Baquet, in December 1940. At this time Baquet was playing at Wilson’s Cafe in Philadelphia, and Russell interviewed him during an intermission. Baquet, who had left New Orleans in 1914, remembered Bolden well.