1 00:02:59,246 --> 00:03:02,814 This is WSNB Radio New Orleans 2 00:03:02,816 --> 00:03:06,518 live broadcasting from the beautiful Suburban Gardens here, 3 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:09,655 where our special guest this evening, Mr. Louis Armstrong, 4 00:03:09,657 --> 00:03:13,025 is back in New Orleans after ten long years. 5 00:03:13,027 --> 00:03:16,195 He's come back here a big, big star. 6 00:03:18,332 --> 00:03:20,232 ...on WSNB Radio New Orleans. 7 00:03:20,234 --> 00:03:23,202 And our next broadcast is brought to you by, 8 00:03:23,204 --> 00:03:25,604 uh, Royal Crown Hair Cream. 9 00:03:25,606 --> 00:03:27,472 That's right. Your hair'll be curling... 10 00:03:30,077 --> 00:03:32,311 What a crowd here... 11 00:03:33,214 --> 00:03:34,546 Yes, sir. 12 00:03:34,548 --> 00:03:37,249 Our station manager handed me a paper here 13 00:03:37,251 --> 00:03:39,868 that says to his recollection, 14 00:03:39,869 --> 00:03:43,029 this will be the first time a colored boy will be on the radio in New Orleans. 15 00:03:43,857 --> 00:03:46,258 All right, so we see they're dimming the lights here, 16 00:03:46,260 --> 00:03:50,162 and, uh, our MC is approaching the microphone 17 00:03:50,164 --> 00:03:52,864 to begin this evening's broadcast. 18 00:03:52,866 --> 00:03:56,168 I ain't announcing no nigger man on the radio. 19 00:04:11,385 --> 00:04:13,151 Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. 20 00:04:13,153 --> 00:04:14,987 I'm Mr. Armstrong. 21 00:04:31,105 --> 00:04:32,704 Hello. You like that? 22 00:04:32,706 --> 00:04:34,640 I said we back home, we back home. 23 00:04:39,113 --> 00:04:40,512 Thank you, folks. Thank you, folks. 24 00:04:40,514 --> 00:04:42,648 Thank you, folks. Look out here, folks. 25 00:04:42,650 --> 00:04:45,884 Now, this goes out to all you lovely people in here 26 00:04:45,886 --> 00:04:49,288 and all my beautiful brothers and sisters outside on the levee. 27 00:04:53,093 --> 00:04:54,526 The first I'm going to play for you 28 00:04:54,528 --> 00:04:56,662 is You Rascal You. You Rascal You. 29 00:04:56,664 --> 00:04:58,030 Look out here, fellas, look out. 30 00:04:58,032 --> 00:04:59,665 You ready? Here we go. One... 31 00:05:18,185 --> 00:05:19,484 ♪ Boy, you know one thing? 32 00:05:19,486 --> 00:05:21,653 ♪ I'll sure be glad when you're dead 33 00:05:26,126 --> 00:05:27,759 ♪ Laughin' and grinnin' in my face 34 00:05:27,761 --> 00:05:30,629 ♪ You're trying to be in the back with my wife, you old dog 35 00:05:45,879 --> 00:05:48,947 ♪ I'll be glad when you're dead you rascal, you 36 00:06:23,050 --> 00:06:25,917 ♪ I'll be glad when you're dead you rascal you 37 00:06:25,919 --> 00:06:30,255 ♪ I'll be glad when you're dead you rascal you 38 00:06:30,257 --> 00:06:32,324 ♪ When you're layin' six feet deep 39 00:06:32,326 --> 00:06:34,926 ♪ No more fried chicken will you eat 40 00:06:34,928 --> 00:06:37,896 ♪ You ain't no good, you rascal you ♪ 41 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:02,454 Thank you, thank you. 42 00:07:02,456 --> 00:07:06,391 Thank you. Thank you, folks. Thank you, folks. Thank you, thank you. 43 00:07:38,258 --> 00:07:40,125 Ladies and gentlemen, listen to the crowd 44 00:07:40,127 --> 00:07:44,996 welcoming home the wonderful Louis Armstrong in New Orleans. 45 00:07:52,473 --> 00:07:54,639 This here is my sister, Miss Nora Bass. 46 00:07:54,641 --> 00:07:56,708 Nora, this is Mr. Charles Bolden. 47 00:07:56,710 --> 00:07:59,344 He live on First Street. 48 00:07:59,346 --> 00:08:03,014 Maybe you should invite Mr. Bolden to Sunday service with us. 49 00:08:06,153 --> 00:08:07,586 Nora. 50 00:08:10,357 --> 00:08:13,725 You don't seem like much a church-going man, Mr. Bolden. 51 00:08:15,195 --> 00:08:17,062 Mama and me, we go to... 52 00:08:17,064 --> 00:08:19,564 Mama and me, we go to First Street Baptist. 53 00:08:21,869 --> 00:08:23,301 Mama. 54 00:08:23,303 --> 00:08:25,237 This is Mr. Charles Bolden. 55 00:08:25,239 --> 00:08:27,639 This is my mama, Mrs. Ida Bass. 56 00:08:28,375 --> 00:08:29,474 How do you do, Mrs. Ida... 57 00:08:29,476 --> 00:08:31,710 How do you make your livin', Mr. Bolden? 58 00:08:36,550 --> 00:08:38,250 I make the church music better. 59 00:08:48,161 --> 00:08:49,928 I make the church music better. 60 00:10:04,671 --> 00:10:06,304 So what do a manager do? 61 00:10:06,306 --> 00:10:07,772 What do a manager do? 62 00:10:08,008 --> 00:10:08,840 Oh. 63 00:10:08,842 --> 00:10:10,442 I take care of the business 64 00:10:10,444 --> 00:10:12,210 while you take care of your music. 65 00:10:13,013 --> 00:10:15,714 Your music got power. I hear it. 66 00:10:16,283 --> 00:10:18,516 I seen what it do to folks. 67 00:10:18,518 --> 00:10:20,685 Take power like you got... 68 00:10:20,687 --> 00:10:22,721 ...combine it with a business purpose, 69 00:10:23,457 --> 00:10:25,256 that's what a manager do. 70 00:10:27,861 --> 00:10:29,828 You a sensation, Bolden. 71 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:35,533 You play horn louder than the day's long, 72 00:10:35,535 --> 00:10:37,168 even in the hot sun. 73 00:10:37,170 --> 00:10:41,272 You got women dropping to your feet, hoping to carry your horn. 74 00:10:41,274 --> 00:10:43,875 The day you was born, you was kissed on the lips 75 00:10:43,877 --> 00:10:47,379 with something only you got, ain't nobody else got it. 76 00:10:47,848 --> 00:10:49,814 Folks hear your music, 77 00:10:49,816 --> 00:10:51,282 they understand something 78 00:10:51,284 --> 00:10:53,418 can't hardly put to words. 79 00:10:55,589 --> 00:10:58,223 And I know how to sell what you got. 80 00:11:00,594 --> 00:11:02,927 And you... 81 00:11:02,929 --> 00:11:05,697 ...you better listen to me. 82 00:11:06,366 --> 00:11:07,932 Mmm-hmm. 83 00:11:10,904 --> 00:11:13,338 How the band supposed to make more money if we gotta pay you? 84 00:11:14,207 --> 00:11:16,941 I put you in front of a white audience. 85 00:11:23,183 --> 00:11:24,716 Jesus Christ, Bartley. 86 00:11:24,718 --> 00:11:27,185 Yeah. 87 00:11:27,187 --> 00:11:28,453 You ever done this? 88 00:11:28,455 --> 00:11:30,155 I got to fly the balloon. 89 00:11:59,686 --> 00:12:01,720 Boy, they don't like this one bit, huh? 90 00:12:03,690 --> 00:12:05,490 How long before we gotta start this... 91 00:12:06,593 --> 00:12:08,560 - Oh, no, I'll be damned. - Oh, yeah. 92 00:12:08,562 --> 00:12:10,795 Oh, no. Buddy. 93 00:12:11,765 --> 00:12:13,131 Bartley, I don't think this is a good idea. 94 00:12:13,133 --> 00:12:15,467 Oh, you'll be all right. You'll be great. 95 00:12:15,469 --> 00:12:16,568 I won't fall? 96 00:12:16,570 --> 00:12:17,535 Come on, you got to go now. 97 00:12:17,537 --> 00:12:18,570 Yeah? 98 00:12:18,572 --> 00:12:20,238 Why the fuck am I doing this? 99 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:21,740 All right. 100 00:12:21,741 --> 00:12:23,241 I... Tell me... Tell me when to jump. 101 00:12:26,346 --> 00:12:29,280 Play it loud! 102 00:12:33,086 --> 00:12:36,588 - Stop the cart. Stop the cart. - Whoa, whoa. 103 00:12:59,913 --> 00:13:01,246 Oh. 104 00:14:00,106 --> 00:14:02,307 Thanks for the crowd. 105 00:14:09,049 --> 00:14:10,648 Whoo! 106 00:14:10,650 --> 00:14:13,117 Hey, Buddy Bolden! 107 00:14:20,861 --> 00:14:22,293 Whoo! 108 00:14:41,114 --> 00:14:42,114 Stop. 109 00:15:34,267 --> 00:15:35,700 Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, thank you. 110 00:15:35,702 --> 00:15:38,703 I see that we have someone who can't not be here today. 111 00:15:38,705 --> 00:15:40,855 Right over there. 112 00:15:40,856 --> 00:15:43,006 You know, folks, they helped me get my very first cornet. 113 00:15:43,009 --> 00:15:44,309 Yes, they did. 114 00:15:44,311 --> 00:15:46,411 I was just a little boy back then. 115 00:15:54,754 --> 00:15:57,288 ♪ Oh, that's it right there 116 00:15:58,458 --> 00:16:00,825 ♪ Every night 117 00:16:00,827 --> 00:16:03,795 ♪ You'll hear her croon 118 00:16:03,797 --> 00:16:08,333 ♪ A Russian lullaby 119 00:16:09,302 --> 00:16:10,601 ♪ Oh, just 120 00:16:11,738 --> 00:16:14,939 ♪ Just a little plaintive tune 121 00:16:14,941 --> 00:16:19,077 ♪ When baby starts to cry 122 00:16:20,981 --> 00:16:26,284 ♪ Rock-a-bye, my baby... ♪ 123 00:16:44,037 --> 00:16:46,037 You all right down here, Buddy? 124 00:19:20,827 --> 00:19:24,862 ...Radio broadcasting live from Suburban Gardens 125 00:19:24,864 --> 00:19:27,064 in New Orleans. 126 00:19:57,297 --> 00:19:59,230 Evening, Bolden. 127 00:20:00,466 --> 00:20:02,400 As an officer of the court, 128 00:20:02,402 --> 00:20:06,771 I am duty-bound to make a periodic assessment 129 00:20:06,773 --> 00:20:10,942 of the conditions in our state prisons and asylums. 130 00:20:10,944 --> 00:20:15,112 As presiding judge of the Criminal Court or Orleans parish, 131 00:20:15,114 --> 00:20:17,782 I am the final arbiter 132 00:20:17,784 --> 00:20:20,985 of your life and liberty. 133 00:20:20,987 --> 00:20:23,821 I'm here because you're here. 134 00:20:29,062 --> 00:20:30,761 "Servants... 135 00:20:30,763 --> 00:20:32,997 "be obedient to them that are your masters. 136 00:20:32,999 --> 00:20:36,500 "according to the flesh, with fear and trembling..." 137 00:20:38,538 --> 00:20:42,506 That's the way the world moves on, Bolden. 138 00:20:43,343 --> 00:20:45,476 Hate your oppressors 139 00:20:45,478 --> 00:20:48,846 and you'll be enslaved forever by your memories. 140 00:20:57,257 --> 00:20:58,823 Hey! 141 00:20:59,559 --> 00:21:01,643 Hey! 142 00:21:01,644 --> 00:21:03,728 Kid, you gotta put 'em up or you gonna get hit. 143 00:21:04,664 --> 00:21:05,997 All right, you two. 144 00:21:05,999 --> 00:21:07,131 Go on. Come on. 145 00:21:35,795 --> 00:21:38,296 What'd I tell you? What'd I tell you? 146 00:21:58,217 --> 00:21:59,717 Come on now, come on! 147 00:23:31,010 --> 00:23:32,743 Come on down and see me play tonight. 148 00:23:32,745 --> 00:23:34,512 And leave Mama all alone? 149 00:23:34,514 --> 00:23:35,913 No. Bring her with. 150 00:23:35,915 --> 00:23:37,948 She can dance like we do in church. 151 00:23:37,950 --> 00:23:40,584 - What? - I know she can. 152 00:24:41,147 --> 00:24:42,179 Hold this. 153 00:24:53,192 --> 00:24:55,125 Come on, you go it. 154 00:25:03,035 --> 00:25:04,201 God damn. 155 00:25:16,182 --> 00:25:17,648 Why we out here? 156 00:25:17,650 --> 00:25:19,116 Women are dancing over here. 157 00:25:19,719 --> 00:25:21,752 Buddy, dancing's inside. 158 00:25:23,322 --> 00:25:25,289 Ain't never enough dancers for that. 159 00:25:25,291 --> 00:25:26,690 You gotta call 'em all. 160 00:25:26,692 --> 00:25:28,926 Can't you call, call 'em from inside? 161 00:25:31,063 --> 00:25:33,097 So you're just gonna keep playing, huh? 162 00:25:36,369 --> 00:25:38,202 You know what's between them stars? 163 00:25:38,204 --> 00:25:39,870 Don't start with that shit, Buddy. 164 00:25:39,872 --> 00:25:40,905 Space. 165 00:25:40,907 --> 00:25:42,206 Please, man. Shit. 166 00:25:42,208 --> 00:25:43,841 Ain't nothin' but time. 167 00:25:46,946 --> 00:25:48,212 Yeah. 168 00:26:21,013 --> 00:26:22,212 Nora. 169 00:26:24,984 --> 00:26:26,250 Shh. 170 00:26:28,654 --> 00:26:31,388 - Nora. - Shh. 171 00:26:31,390 --> 00:26:34,258 What are you doing here? 172 00:26:34,260 --> 00:26:37,061 Nora, why you don't come see me play? 173 00:26:38,631 --> 00:26:41,298 A lady don't go where the Bolden band play. 174 00:26:43,369 --> 00:26:45,636 Oh. 175 00:26:45,638 --> 00:26:48,906 Mama said you grow up too wild for a good girl. 176 00:26:48,908 --> 00:26:51,108 All that rockin' in church, 177 00:26:51,110 --> 00:26:52,810 she don't like that, no. 178 00:27:00,686 --> 00:27:02,920 Mama don't like your music neither. 179 00:27:08,427 --> 00:27:10,127 Hey, whoa, whoa! 180 00:27:10,963 --> 00:27:12,863 Y'all ain't playin' it right. 181 00:27:15,768 --> 00:27:17,501 Put your horns down. Put 'em down, put 'em down. 182 00:27:17,503 --> 00:27:19,837 We, we, we, we're gonna clap it out. 183 00:27:19,838 --> 00:27:22,172 Tillman, give me that, uh, give me that beat you were working with. Hit it on four. 184 00:27:22,174 --> 00:27:23,874 This one? 185 00:27:24,677 --> 00:27:26,377 Yeah, yeah, that's it. Four. 186 00:27:26,379 --> 00:27:27,678 Now, Johnson. 187 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,414 Ba, ba, ba-ra, ba-ra. 188 00:27:30,416 --> 00:27:32,716 Ba, ba, ba-ra, ba-ra. 189 00:27:34,553 --> 00:27:36,854 See how that feels? Yeah, yeah, that's it. 190 00:27:36,856 --> 00:27:38,555 Now, Mumford, give me time. 191 00:27:43,596 --> 00:27:45,929 Oh, yeah. Cornish, come on down. 192 00:27:45,931 --> 00:27:47,998 Hit two and four. 193 00:27:49,635 --> 00:27:51,168 Come on, Cornish. 194 00:27:51,170 --> 00:27:52,469 Da. Da. 195 00:27:52,471 --> 00:27:53,471 Let's go. 196 00:27:54,540 --> 00:27:56,306 Yeah. Yeah, that's right. 197 00:27:58,077 --> 00:27:59,009 Yeah. 198 00:27:59,011 --> 00:28:00,077 Now, Warner. 199 00:28:01,147 --> 00:28:03,447 Pay attention. Look. You're gonna hit the four. 200 00:28:07,420 --> 00:28:08,752 Come on, Warner. 201 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,060 Oh, yeah. 202 00:28:26,806 --> 00:28:28,238 Listen, listen. 203 00:28:32,478 --> 00:28:33,877 That's it. 204 00:28:35,581 --> 00:28:37,281 Oh! 205 00:28:45,624 --> 00:28:47,324 Yeah, ha. 206 00:28:55,868 --> 00:28:58,068 This music about talking to each other. 207 00:28:58,437 --> 00:28:59,903 Yeah. Come on. 208 00:29:00,573 --> 00:29:02,539 Now y'all havin' a conversation. 209 00:29:03,843 --> 00:29:05,776 Who said that? 210 00:29:05,778 --> 00:29:06,944 Why would you now... 211 00:29:06,946 --> 00:29:07,946 Yeah! 212 00:29:13,419 --> 00:29:14,419 Come on. 213 00:29:38,544 --> 00:29:39,544 I love you! 214 00:29:58,731 --> 00:30:00,063 Mama. 215 00:30:02,835 --> 00:30:04,301 Nora gonna move in with us. 216 00:30:15,247 --> 00:30:16,346 Mmm. 217 00:30:16,347 --> 00:30:17,446 Yeah. That's it. 218 00:30:17,449 --> 00:30:19,283 Ease into it like that. 219 00:30:19,718 --> 00:30:21,118 And you gotta, um... 220 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,387 Get your... Get your wrists loose. 221 00:30:23,389 --> 00:30:24,872 See that. 222 00:30:24,873 --> 00:30:26,356 Blow your lips. Like that. 223 00:30:26,358 --> 00:30:27,858 You blow... 224 00:30:27,860 --> 00:30:30,260 Yeah, like... 225 00:30:34,633 --> 00:30:37,467 I ain't raise my daughter for the likes of you. 226 00:30:37,469 --> 00:30:40,537 How you fixin' to make a livin' playing your horn? 227 00:30:41,540 --> 00:30:43,373 Why can't you get a real job? 228 00:31:52,578 --> 00:31:54,077 You dressing for church? 229 00:31:54,079 --> 00:31:58,615 I don't wanna hear nothing about that First Street Baptist Church. 230 00:32:03,389 --> 00:32:04,688 We're Episcopal. 231 00:32:11,130 --> 00:32:12,763 Yeah. 232 00:32:12,764 --> 00:32:14,397 I got a new collar for your shirt. 233 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,434 Mama, I ain't wearing a collar. It's too tight around my neck. 234 00:32:18,804 --> 00:32:20,404 Where you performing at? 235 00:32:20,773 --> 00:32:22,205 Union Sons Hall. 236 00:32:23,442 --> 00:32:25,809 They call it the Funky Butt when you're out playing. 237 00:32:25,811 --> 00:32:27,411 Yeah, Mama. But how you know that? 238 00:32:27,413 --> 00:32:28,445 I hear things. 239 00:32:29,982 --> 00:32:32,015 No, Mama, no. No, Mama. 240 00:32:33,619 --> 00:32:35,052 No, Mama, please. 241 00:32:36,322 --> 00:32:37,921 Mama, please, I can't breathe with that on. 242 00:32:37,923 --> 00:32:38,989 But you look good. 243 00:32:38,991 --> 00:32:40,657 Can't breathe in it. 244 00:32:54,707 --> 00:32:56,139 Hey! 245 00:32:57,643 --> 00:32:59,109 Hey! 246 00:33:00,446 --> 00:33:01,478 Hey! 247 00:33:03,449 --> 00:33:04,648 Hey! 248 00:33:06,385 --> 00:33:07,651 Hey! 249 00:33:09,254 --> 00:33:10,354 Hey! 250 00:33:54,900 --> 00:33:56,366 Bolden! 251 00:33:56,368 --> 00:33:57,368 Buddy. 252 00:33:57,870 --> 00:34:00,003 Buddy! Where you at, man? 253 00:34:01,807 --> 00:34:04,107 There you are. I been lookin' all over. 254 00:34:04,109 --> 00:34:06,676 Evenin', Warner. This here is Mavis. 255 00:34:07,379 --> 00:34:09,279 Hey, Mavis. 256 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,180 Bolden, we got a big crowd waitin' on you, man. 257 00:34:11,183 --> 00:34:12,716 We're busy now, honey. 258 00:34:12,718 --> 00:34:15,552 And George Baquet, waitin' out there with his horn. 259 00:34:16,455 --> 00:34:19,089 Blue-eyed tan man comin' to our neighborhood? 260 00:34:20,492 --> 00:34:22,426 Warner, you worried about George Baquet? 261 00:34:22,428 --> 00:34:24,061 That motherfucker comin' for my job. 262 00:34:24,063 --> 00:34:25,629 Ain't nobody comin' for your job. 263 00:34:25,631 --> 00:34:27,964 Why you think the best paid clarinet man in New Orleans 264 00:34:27,966 --> 00:34:29,366 come to the pit to play with us? 265 00:34:29,368 --> 00:34:31,301 Jimmy Palao got the light-skin niggers, too. 266 00:34:31,303 --> 00:34:32,836 Nobody come for your job. 267 00:34:32,838 --> 00:34:35,205 He ain't so white like they talk. 268 00:34:35,207 --> 00:34:40,243 ♪ Make me a pallet on your floor 269 00:34:43,315 --> 00:34:47,851 ♪ Make me a pallet on your floor 270 00:34:47,853 --> 00:34:49,453 What she doin' here? 271 00:34:50,756 --> 00:34:54,324 ♪ If you make me a pallet 272 00:34:54,326 --> 00:34:58,328 ♪ I swear your woman will never know 273 00:34:59,598 --> 00:35:04,634 ♪ Make me a pallet on your floor 274 00:35:28,393 --> 00:35:30,193 Play your heart out, Buddy Bolden. 275 00:35:37,169 --> 00:35:39,169 ♪ Make it soft 276 00:35:39,171 --> 00:35:42,806 ♪ Make it easy make it flow 277 00:35:45,577 --> 00:35:47,410 ♪ Make it soft 278 00:35:47,412 --> 00:35:51,648 ♪ Make it easy make it slow 279 00:35:54,052 --> 00:35:57,220 ♪ When she comes in 280 00:35:57,222 --> 00:36:01,057 ♪ I swear she would never know 281 00:36:01,059 --> 00:36:06,863 ♪ That you make me a pallet down upon your floor ♪ 282 00:36:18,310 --> 00:36:20,210 I'm pregnant. 283 00:36:23,782 --> 00:36:25,215 A baby? 284 00:36:25,951 --> 00:36:27,651 You can't take care of yourself. 285 00:36:29,254 --> 00:36:31,688 Ain't you got one already? A little boy? 286 00:36:38,096 --> 00:36:40,764 Yeah! 287 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:43,767 Right and wrong. 288 00:36:45,070 --> 00:36:48,238 Oh, it can be so confusing. 289 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:50,106 Lord wrote a book about it. 290 00:36:50,108 --> 00:36:53,276 Civil societies are defined by it. 291 00:36:55,314 --> 00:36:58,181 You just don't know the difference. 292 00:36:58,183 --> 00:37:00,417 Niggers don't know right from wrong. 293 00:37:02,487 --> 00:37:04,721 You are not in God's image. 294 00:37:12,464 --> 00:37:14,497 We're gonna have a baby, Buddy. 295 00:37:18,637 --> 00:37:19,703 Come on. 296 00:38:02,447 --> 00:38:04,281 King Bolden. 297 00:38:04,283 --> 00:38:06,750 I want you to meet George Baquet. 298 00:38:14,693 --> 00:38:15,759 Hey, George. 299 00:38:21,199 --> 00:38:23,033 You come to copy me? 300 00:38:23,035 --> 00:38:24,367 Don't worry, Warner. 301 00:38:24,369 --> 00:38:26,736 He just want to do a couple of rounds with Bolden. 302 00:39:50,756 --> 00:39:51,756 Yeah! 303 00:40:19,017 --> 00:40:21,751 Ladies and gentlemen, this here George Baquet. 304 00:40:48,180 --> 00:40:50,180 Here, here, let me show you how to. 305 00:40:55,086 --> 00:40:56,453 Warner, come and get me! 306 00:40:57,489 --> 00:40:59,589 Come on, Warner, come and get me. 307 00:41:00,659 --> 00:41:01,659 Come on. 308 00:41:30,522 --> 00:41:33,122 It's all right. It's all right. 309 00:41:34,092 --> 00:41:35,558 You'll get this. 310 00:41:37,562 --> 00:41:39,596 Bolden, do you write your music down? 311 00:41:40,332 --> 00:41:42,765 Can you write it down? 312 00:41:42,767 --> 00:41:44,300 We're composing on the bandstand, you know? 313 00:41:44,302 --> 00:41:47,637 So, it's... It's like we're talking to each other. 314 00:41:47,639 --> 00:41:48,972 We're havin' a conversation. 315 00:41:48,974 --> 00:41:51,674 I let the notes play on through, that's what I do. 316 00:41:52,444 --> 00:41:54,010 Just got to listen. 317 00:41:54,012 --> 00:41:56,646 I never play without the music right in front of me. 318 00:41:58,617 --> 00:42:00,717 You play it the same, same, same, same, same. 319 00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:02,852 I don't do none of that. I play it my way. 320 00:42:02,854 --> 00:42:04,738 Every time. 321 00:42:04,739 --> 00:42:06,623 And that string may, it may never come out the same 322 00:42:06,625 --> 00:42:07,891 so how you gonna write it down? 323 00:42:07,893 --> 00:42:09,359 How you gonna write it down, huh? 324 00:42:09,361 --> 00:42:10,960 Bolden if you don't write your music down, 325 00:42:10,962 --> 00:42:12,896 how's anyone gonna play it when you're gone? 326 00:42:12,898 --> 00:42:15,832 You don't understand. It's a... It's a livin' thing. 327 00:42:15,834 --> 00:42:17,901 It's, it's, it's... It's me and the whole band. 328 00:42:17,903 --> 00:42:20,136 We, we, we just breathing together. 329 00:42:21,773 --> 00:42:23,806 So you don't even know what you're gonna play. 330 00:42:24,376 --> 00:42:26,142 You know, sometimes I... 331 00:42:28,580 --> 00:42:31,080 I think it's better not to play anything at all. 332 00:42:36,555 --> 00:42:39,756 Bolden, try playing around this. 333 00:44:24,129 --> 00:44:26,329 You think Warner holding back the band? 334 00:44:27,298 --> 00:44:28,931 He been working hard. 335 00:44:29,968 --> 00:44:31,968 But I'm with you whatever you decide. 336 00:44:59,364 --> 00:45:00,496 ♪ Ride on 337 00:45:00,498 --> 00:45:03,032 ♪ No man can hinder thee 338 00:45:03,034 --> 00:45:06,703 - ♪ Ride on - ♪ Ride on King Jesus 339 00:45:06,705 --> 00:45:08,271 ♪ Ride on 340 00:45:08,273 --> 00:45:11,207 ♪ No man can hinder thee 341 00:45:11,209 --> 00:45:12,642 ♪ Ride on 342 00:45:12,644 --> 00:45:15,611 - ♪ Ride on - ♪ Ride on King Jesus 343 00:45:15,613 --> 00:45:17,346 ♪ Ride on 344 00:45:17,348 --> 00:45:18,815 ♪ No man can... ♪ 345 00:45:20,919 --> 00:45:22,985 You know what this country needs? 346 00:45:23,521 --> 00:45:24,854 What's that? 347 00:45:24,856 --> 00:45:27,090 A negro heavyweight champ. 348 00:45:27,826 --> 00:45:29,492 Jack Johnson the champ, man. 349 00:45:29,494 --> 00:45:31,127 He the color champ. 350 00:45:31,129 --> 00:45:33,062 White champ won't even fight him. 351 00:45:33,064 --> 00:45:34,731 No. 352 00:45:34,733 --> 00:45:37,600 White champ ain't gonna fight your ministry boys 353 00:45:37,602 --> 00:45:39,001 and you wanna know why? 354 00:45:39,003 --> 00:45:40,036 Why? 355 00:45:40,038 --> 00:45:42,038 'Cause they don't find us serious. 356 00:45:44,442 --> 00:45:48,010 Gettin' in a ring with Jack Johnson's pretty goddamn serious. 357 00:45:52,250 --> 00:45:53,449 White folks... 358 00:45:54,853 --> 00:45:56,919 they're gonna have to reckon with talent. 359 00:45:59,390 --> 00:46:01,491 Bolden, you know about 360 00:46:02,193 --> 00:46:03,960 cylinder recording? 361 00:46:05,830 --> 00:46:08,698 - Cylinder recording? - Mmm-hmm. 362 00:46:08,700 --> 00:46:10,600 Put your music in a machine. 363 00:46:22,213 --> 00:46:24,647 Bartley know a man put music in a tin can. 364 00:46:24,649 --> 00:46:26,349 Music in a tin can? 365 00:46:26,351 --> 00:46:27,617 Yeah. 366 00:46:27,619 --> 00:46:28,818 Well, how do it work? 367 00:46:28,820 --> 00:46:30,486 You sound music into a machine 368 00:46:30,488 --> 00:46:32,355 and the machine put out a tin can. 369 00:46:32,357 --> 00:46:35,424 They'll put tin can back into the machine, and that music come out. 370 00:46:37,362 --> 00:46:38,928 B... 371 00:46:38,930 --> 00:46:40,763 Music in a tin can? 372 00:46:40,765 --> 00:46:42,765 What it sound like? 373 00:46:42,767 --> 00:46:44,700 I don't know. I never heard it. 374 00:46:44,702 --> 00:46:46,469 But Bartley say it sound like money. 375 00:46:47,572 --> 00:46:49,438 Sounds like magic. 376 00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:51,174 Yeah. 377 00:46:51,176 --> 00:46:54,911 Folks will hear my music, but I'm invisible. 378 00:46:54,913 --> 00:46:56,312 I don't know, Nora. 379 00:46:56,314 --> 00:46:58,848 People hearing you play and you ain't there? 380 00:47:01,085 --> 00:47:02,285 Yeah. 381 00:47:57,575 --> 00:47:59,008 This is a shit hole! 382 00:47:59,944 --> 00:48:02,678 Gotta get a better place! 383 00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:05,014 And I want bigger niggers next time. 384 00:48:48,393 --> 00:48:49,692 This cost a dime. 385 00:48:50,929 --> 00:48:53,629 Sell 50 vials, you make a dollar. 386 00:48:55,867 --> 00:49:00,136 Sell 100 vials, you get $2.10. 387 00:49:01,606 --> 00:49:03,239 As business gets better, 388 00:49:04,676 --> 00:49:06,042 y'all do better. 389 00:49:07,812 --> 00:49:09,578 There's money in recording music. 390 00:49:11,582 --> 00:49:13,983 You gonna put your music in Bartley's machine? 391 00:49:16,454 --> 00:49:18,688 If there's a machine play your music, 392 00:49:18,690 --> 00:49:20,156 more folks gonna hear. 393 00:49:20,758 --> 00:49:22,792 White folks, too. 394 00:49:22,794 --> 00:49:24,627 They the ones can afford the machine. 395 00:50:06,404 --> 00:50:09,105 Desire and desperation 396 00:50:09,107 --> 00:50:12,208 are dangerous motivations, Bolden. 397 00:50:16,581 --> 00:50:18,180 Humility recedes 398 00:50:18,182 --> 00:50:21,217 and loyalty vanishes. 399 00:50:22,053 --> 00:50:24,453 One thing stays the same. 400 00:50:24,455 --> 00:50:26,522 There's always someone who can do it better. 401 00:51:01,893 --> 00:51:03,492 Teach him a lesson, Buddy. 402 00:51:08,266 --> 00:51:09,666 Yeah, all right. Thank you. 403 00:51:26,717 --> 00:51:29,952 Warner, I can't find the valves to my horn. 404 00:51:29,954 --> 00:51:31,587 You have the valves right here. Look. 405 00:51:31,589 --> 00:51:32,655 You're fine. 406 00:51:32,657 --> 00:51:33,756 I'm not fine, Warner. 407 00:52:09,494 --> 00:52:10,226 Buddy. 408 00:52:12,230 --> 00:52:13,529 Play somethin'. 409 00:52:15,233 --> 00:52:18,134 He's gonna let some other motherfucker right in 410 00:52:18,136 --> 00:52:19,301 and steal our shit off? 411 00:52:19,303 --> 00:52:21,303 Who gonna catch us, Buddy? 412 00:52:21,304 --> 00:52:23,304 Cornish, Cornish, Cornish. You're supposed to be on my side. 413 00:52:23,307 --> 00:52:26,308 Can't nobody do what we do, baby. 414 00:52:26,310 --> 00:52:29,778 You gotta put your music in that man's machine, motherfucker. 415 00:52:34,018 --> 00:52:36,385 King Bolden. You ready? 416 00:52:37,121 --> 00:52:39,255 Are you ready, Warner? 417 00:52:39,257 --> 00:52:41,223 Ain't I lookin' ready? 418 00:52:41,225 --> 00:52:42,858 We gonna play at Butcher Hollow tonight. 419 00:52:42,860 --> 00:52:43,860 No. 420 00:52:45,029 --> 00:52:46,529 It hurts my ears, man. 421 00:52:46,531 --> 00:52:48,797 The sound comin' off of that wall, it's, uh, 422 00:52:48,799 --> 00:52:50,299 messin' with my time, so... 423 00:52:50,301 --> 00:52:52,067 We go now, we'll be right on time. 424 00:52:52,069 --> 00:52:53,869 Right on the down beat. 425 00:52:53,871 --> 00:52:56,872 Warner, listen to me. My lip ain't balmed, so... 426 00:52:58,142 --> 00:53:01,143 So get on down there. I'll meet y'all over there. 427 00:53:01,145 --> 00:53:02,711 Come on, man, we gotta go to work. 428 00:53:02,713 --> 00:53:04,680 "Go to work"? Warner, you goin' to work. 429 00:53:07,752 --> 00:53:08,984 You all right, Buddy? 430 00:53:08,986 --> 00:53:10,186 Goddamn! Warner, get out! 431 00:53:10,188 --> 00:53:11,120 Warner get out! 432 00:53:11,122 --> 00:53:12,888 Get on out. 433 00:53:12,890 --> 00:53:14,423 And I'll be right over. 434 00:53:15,059 --> 00:53:16,392 Okay? 435 00:53:21,566 --> 00:53:23,699 Well, I guess I'll see you over there, Buddy. 436 00:53:36,347 --> 00:53:39,815 You were supposed to be playing my place last night. 437 00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:46,288 I heard you was playing down the street. Hmm? 438 00:53:46,290 --> 00:53:48,791 You fuck up my Thursday night business. 439 00:53:48,793 --> 00:53:50,459 Somebody be playing like me. 440 00:53:50,461 --> 00:53:53,162 Somebody be playing like me. 441 00:53:53,164 --> 00:53:56,465 You gonna give us the next three Thursdays 442 00:53:56,834 --> 00:53:58,634 for nothin'. Hmm? 443 00:53:59,971 --> 00:54:00,971 Gotta pay the band. 444 00:54:03,674 --> 00:54:06,141 You out your motherfuckin' mind. 445 00:54:06,143 --> 00:54:08,277 You mess with that man's business, 446 00:54:08,279 --> 00:54:11,280 that means you messing with my business. 447 00:54:20,858 --> 00:54:22,858 Hey, Bartley, 448 00:54:22,859 --> 00:54:24,859 what you gonna do when you get Buddy's music in a tin can? 449 00:54:24,862 --> 00:54:26,328 I'm gonna sell it. 450 00:54:26,330 --> 00:54:28,597 Who's gonna want to hear his music? 451 00:54:28,599 --> 00:54:32,334 And I got exclusive arrangements with a white man by then. 452 00:54:37,275 --> 00:54:39,642 Baby, you're gonna be a family man now. 453 00:54:39,644 --> 00:54:42,544 You gonna have a child to provide for. 454 00:54:42,546 --> 00:54:46,015 You wanna play your horn instead of plastering walls, all right. 455 00:54:46,017 --> 00:54:48,350 But you gotta make it pay. 456 00:55:05,036 --> 00:55:06,535 Bartley... 457 00:55:06,537 --> 00:55:10,506 he need to put his music in that machine. 458 00:55:10,508 --> 00:55:12,274 Don't worry, baby. 459 00:55:12,276 --> 00:55:13,676 We gonna get him. 460 00:55:14,612 --> 00:55:18,047 Sooner or later, we gonna get his music. 461 00:55:30,194 --> 00:55:32,261 You're listening to Louis Armstrong... 462 00:55:32,263 --> 00:55:33,629 Nora! 463 00:55:35,266 --> 00:55:37,866 I need to get married to you, Buddy. 464 00:55:40,304 --> 00:55:41,970 When you coming home? 465 00:56:23,147 --> 00:56:24,446 Hey, baby. 466 00:56:51,208 --> 00:56:53,242 ♪ Cold empty bed 467 00:56:53,244 --> 00:56:55,544 ♪ Springs hard as lead 468 00:56:55,546 --> 00:56:57,880 ♪ Feel like Old Ned 469 00:56:57,882 --> 00:56:59,515 ♪ Wished I was dead 470 00:56:59,517 --> 00:57:02,151 ♪ All my life through 471 00:57:02,153 --> 00:57:06,588 ♪ I've been so black and blue 472 00:57:07,124 --> 00:57:08,457 ♪ Hmm, hmm 473 00:57:08,459 --> 00:57:09,992 ♪ Even the mouse 474 00:57:10,895 --> 00:57:13,695 ♪ Ran from my house 475 00:57:13,697 --> 00:57:17,065 ♪ They laughed at you and scorned you too 476 00:57:17,067 --> 00:57:19,334 ♪ What did I do, babe 477 00:57:19,336 --> 00:57:23,172 ♪ To be so black and blue? 478 00:57:25,176 --> 00:57:28,277 ♪ Mmm, I'm white 479 00:57:28,279 --> 00:57:30,412 ♪ Inside 480 00:57:30,414 --> 00:57:34,049 ♪ But that don't help my case 481 00:57:34,819 --> 00:57:36,819 ♪ 'Cause it 482 00:57:36,821 --> 00:57:39,354 ♪ Can't hide 483 00:57:39,356 --> 00:57:42,491 ♪ What is in my face 484 00:57:47,598 --> 00:57:49,665 ♪ How would it end? 485 00:57:49,667 --> 00:57:52,067 ♪ Ain't got a friend 486 00:57:52,069 --> 00:57:55,671 ♪ My only sin is in my skin 487 00:57:55,673 --> 00:57:57,272 ♪ What did I do, babe 488 00:57:57,274 --> 00:57:58,207 Bartley! 489 00:57:58,209 --> 00:58:01,910 ♪ To be so black and blue? 490 00:58:02,847 --> 00:58:04,213 Bartley! 491 00:58:15,693 --> 00:58:16,859 Buddy! 492 00:58:16,861 --> 00:58:18,560 Buddy! Buddy! 493 00:58:32,776 --> 00:58:34,042 Come on. 494 00:58:40,918 --> 00:58:43,218 That's what a motherfuckin' manager do. 495 00:59:05,709 --> 00:59:06,775 Aah! 496 00:59:06,777 --> 00:59:09,411 Stupid motherfuckin' whore. 497 00:59:14,018 --> 00:59:15,284 Clean him up. 498 00:59:58,095 --> 00:59:59,828 Ain't you somethin', 499 01:00:01,198 --> 01:00:02,831 King Bolden. 500 01:00:06,270 --> 01:00:08,070 You ain't come home to me. 501 01:00:12,376 --> 01:00:13,942 Don't do that to me. 502 01:00:46,543 --> 01:00:48,744 Ain't nobody playin' what we playin'. 503 01:00:48,746 --> 01:00:50,879 Ain't nobody playin' what Buddy playin'. 504 01:00:51,615 --> 01:00:54,016 Nobody's splitting up. 505 01:00:54,018 --> 01:00:56,985 And it just have a certain life. 506 01:01:03,794 --> 01:01:05,427 Buddy showed up like black Jesus. 507 01:01:08,065 --> 01:01:10,165 So I guess that make us his disciples. 508 01:01:12,803 --> 01:01:15,070 I'm looking for a Buddy Bolden. 509 01:01:15,539 --> 01:01:17,272 Well, shit, get in line. 510 01:01:17,274 --> 01:01:18,106 You the police? 511 01:01:18,108 --> 01:01:22,344 Uh, no, no. Uh, Bartley sent me. 512 01:01:22,346 --> 01:01:24,179 You don't play clarinet, do you? 513 01:01:24,181 --> 01:01:26,081 No. 514 01:01:26,083 --> 01:01:27,649 No, he said that 515 01:01:27,651 --> 01:01:30,752 Bolden wanted to record his music. I can do this. 516 01:01:30,754 --> 01:01:32,587 It come out on a little tin can, huh? 517 01:01:32,589 --> 01:01:36,958 No. No, it comes out on a wax cylinder. 518 01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:38,894 Ah. I got... 519 01:01:41,665 --> 01:01:45,100 - "Oscar Zahn" - Mmm-mmm. Uh, Zahn. 520 01:01:45,602 --> 01:01:47,302 "Cylinder recorders." 521 01:01:48,539 --> 01:01:50,305 Buddy want to record our music. 522 01:01:52,609 --> 01:01:54,142 Let me see that. 523 01:01:57,781 --> 01:01:59,614 Buddy's scared people are gonna steal our music. 524 01:01:59,616 --> 01:02:01,883 Now he wanna put it on a machine? 525 01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:05,020 Make no sense to me. 526 01:02:25,142 --> 01:02:28,110 Why you think the best paid clarinet man in New Orleans 527 01:02:28,112 --> 01:02:30,112 come to the pit to play with us? 528 01:02:33,450 --> 01:02:35,183 So, uh... 529 01:02:38,889 --> 01:02:40,455 It's pretty good. 530 01:02:41,458 --> 01:02:42,958 Mmm-hmm. 531 01:02:49,967 --> 01:02:53,335 We need to talk about exclusive arrangements, you and me. 532 01:03:13,957 --> 01:03:16,191 I'll put you in front of a white audience. 533 01:03:25,803 --> 01:03:27,869 You a sensation, Bolden. 534 01:03:28,505 --> 01:03:30,472 When people hear your music, 535 01:03:30,474 --> 01:03:34,142 they understand somethin' can hardly be put in words. 536 01:04:11,348 --> 01:04:16,184 We need to talk about exclusive arrangements, you and me. 537 01:05:00,964 --> 01:05:04,199 Playing with George Baquet, good business. 538 01:05:12,042 --> 01:05:14,910 Now how you gonna make a livin' without these, huh? 539 01:05:17,147 --> 01:05:20,115 You got a wife and child to provide for. 540 01:05:21,318 --> 01:05:22,384 If it is your child. 541 01:05:34,631 --> 01:05:36,498 You gonna get out of bed? 542 01:05:36,500 --> 01:05:40,402 Willie Cornish come by, gave me the buttons for your horn. 543 01:05:41,605 --> 01:05:43,338 Why you takin' them out? 544 01:05:48,545 --> 01:05:50,145 I hear your daddy every time you play. 545 01:05:50,147 --> 01:05:52,547 I hear your daddy every time you play. 546 01:05:58,288 --> 01:06:00,655 Your daddy die young to give you strength. 547 01:07:19,336 --> 01:07:22,103 My daddy gave me the power of my lungs. 548 01:07:22,105 --> 01:07:24,439 That's how I play like I do. 549 01:07:58,208 --> 01:08:01,209 Your daddy was sacrificed for your gift. 550 01:08:01,211 --> 01:08:03,244 What gonna happen to your baby? 551 01:08:03,246 --> 01:08:05,380 You gonna lose your gift. 552 01:08:07,584 --> 01:08:09,651 Where are you now? Huh? 553 01:08:28,572 --> 01:08:29,804 Brothers and sisters... 554 01:08:37,214 --> 01:08:40,448 ...I come to you today to talk about returning home. 555 01:08:40,450 --> 01:08:41,549 Back to Africa. 556 01:08:46,156 --> 01:08:48,923 We will never be Americans. 557 01:08:48,925 --> 01:08:50,625 It's time to return home. 558 01:08:54,698 --> 01:08:57,499 - Now, let's go. - We have the right to a peaceful protest. 559 01:09:30,867 --> 01:09:32,800 Get out! Get out! Go! 560 01:10:04,100 --> 01:10:06,401 You, come here! You don't move! 561 01:10:09,439 --> 01:10:11,239 - Hey. Hey. - Keep your hands off of me! 562 01:10:18,181 --> 01:10:20,348 This is all on Bartley. 563 01:10:20,350 --> 01:10:24,619 This here's your enterprising nigger's boy, Bolden. 564 01:10:24,621 --> 01:10:28,122 Caused a riot outside that dance hall he was playin' at. 565 01:10:28,124 --> 01:10:29,857 He's serious trouble. 566 01:10:31,261 --> 01:10:32,927 This is all on Bartley. 567 01:10:36,099 --> 01:10:37,699 Shut Bolden down? 568 01:10:37,701 --> 01:10:41,302 Shut him down. Just stop that boy playing. 569 01:10:41,304 --> 01:10:44,272 A bold nigger is dangerous. 570 01:10:59,322 --> 01:11:00,722 What you lookin' at? 571 01:11:59,049 --> 01:12:00,481 Come on. 572 01:12:00,483 --> 01:12:01,949 Get on out of here. 573 01:12:03,553 --> 01:12:05,720 Motherfucker! Get off of me! 574 01:12:09,359 --> 01:12:11,326 Cornish, where's Warner? 575 01:12:15,932 --> 01:12:18,132 You made all your crowd crazy, caused a riot. 576 01:12:18,134 --> 01:12:20,101 You will stop playing your goddamn horn. 577 01:12:20,103 --> 01:12:22,937 That's what the motherfuckers want. That's what you'll do. 578 01:12:34,117 --> 01:12:35,850 What we gonna do here? 579 01:12:43,760 --> 01:12:45,259 What's wrong with the man? 580 01:12:45,261 --> 01:12:46,894 He gone lost his mind. 581 01:12:47,464 --> 01:12:48,996 Look, he ain't no Bolden, 582 01:12:48,998 --> 01:12:51,999 but we can always get Bunk Johnson to play with us all. 583 01:12:55,038 --> 01:12:56,537 Ain't you got work? 584 01:12:58,241 --> 01:12:59,807 You gonna get out of bed? 585 01:14:37,307 --> 01:14:40,241 No. No, no. Leave me! 586 01:16:51,641 --> 01:16:53,274 Horns up, motherfuckers. 587 01:17:32,382 --> 01:17:33,814 Ambition... 588 01:17:35,518 --> 01:17:37,284 born of vanity. 589 01:17:40,623 --> 01:17:43,157 This is America, Bolden. 590 01:17:43,159 --> 01:17:45,760 How far you think you're gonna get? 591 01:17:47,764 --> 01:17:49,864 Destroy the nigger's soul, 592 01:17:49,866 --> 01:17:53,234 and they will destroy each other. 593 01:18:16,626 --> 01:18:17,892 Turn around. 594 01:18:27,103 --> 01:18:28,936 Number 9 to win. 595 01:18:41,050 --> 01:18:42,717 Your valves are right here. 596 01:18:42,952 --> 01:18:44,218 You fine. 597 01:18:52,228 --> 01:18:53,461 I'm leaving you, Buddy. 598 01:18:54,931 --> 01:18:57,465 Mr. Warner gonna take us up to Chicago. 599 01:18:59,535 --> 01:19:01,302 I'mma help them settle up there. 600 01:19:02,672 --> 01:19:04,805 Can see if I can get some work. 601 01:19:05,708 --> 01:19:07,608 Maybe in one of the stockyards. 602 01:19:23,226 --> 01:19:30,464 ♪ Well, I though I heard Buddy Bolden call 603 01:19:31,901 --> 01:19:38,072 ♪ We started in the summer we didn't end till fall 604 01:19:38,741 --> 01:19:41,275 ♪ You walk in my room 605 01:19:41,277 --> 01:19:45,946 ♪ But when you leave, you will crawl 606 01:19:45,948 --> 01:19:51,819 ♪ Oh, that's what Mr. Bolden called... 607 01:20:53,649 --> 01:20:55,382 Are you ready? 608 01:20:55,852 --> 01:20:57,718 Are you ready? 609 01:20:59,689 --> 01:21:02,656 Destroy men's souls 610 01:21:02,658 --> 01:21:05,726 and they will destroy each other. 611 01:21:05,728 --> 01:21:08,295 The best boxers in the world 612 01:21:08,297 --> 01:21:09,830 in the ring of fire! 613 01:21:13,236 --> 01:21:14,902 ♪ Yeah 614 01:21:15,504 --> 01:21:18,072 ♪ And then take it away 615 01:21:20,076 --> 01:21:23,611 ♪ I thought I heard him say 616 01:21:26,182 --> 01:21:29,483 No, Bolden. Step back, man. 617 01:21:29,485 --> 01:21:32,286 ♪...Buddy Bolden repeat 618 01:21:33,823 --> 01:21:39,927 ♪ I can play it hot or I can play it sweet 619 01:21:41,764 --> 01:21:43,898 - I'm going... - You ain't going in! 620 01:21:43,900 --> 01:21:45,332 - Get out of here. - That's my song! 621 01:21:49,505 --> 01:21:53,974 ♪ That's what I heard Buddy Bolden repeat ♪ 622 01:23:07,416 --> 01:23:08,615 That one there. 623 01:24:11,480 --> 01:24:13,147 Get up! Get up! 624 01:24:13,149 --> 01:24:15,082 Get your black ass up! 625 01:24:15,084 --> 01:24:16,817 - Get up! - Bartley! 626 01:24:17,553 --> 01:24:18,952 You look at me, Bartley! 627 01:24:18,954 --> 01:24:21,355 You lost! You lost on our deal! 628 01:24:23,392 --> 01:24:24,725 Bartley! 629 01:25:07,303 --> 01:25:09,703 You're gonna stop killing us. 630 01:25:11,440 --> 01:25:13,107 It ain't me, baby. 631 01:25:14,110 --> 01:25:15,843 It ain't me. 632 01:26:05,861 --> 01:26:07,694 You have no past. 633 01:26:08,931 --> 01:26:10,631 No history. 634 01:26:12,134 --> 01:26:13,600 No culture. 635 01:26:15,704 --> 01:26:18,038 You come from nothing. 636 01:26:18,040 --> 01:26:19,873 I come from the same place as you. 637 01:26:21,610 --> 01:26:23,644 There is nothing 638 01:26:23,646 --> 01:26:25,445 the same for you and me. 639 01:26:25,447 --> 01:26:27,781 And that ain't never gonna change. 640 01:26:30,186 --> 01:26:32,286 You come from nothing, raise your head, 641 01:26:32,288 --> 01:26:34,621 get people to gather like you're some kind of... 642 01:26:37,026 --> 01:26:39,726 You think we're gonna let that happen? 643 01:26:39,728 --> 01:26:40,994 Hmm? 644 01:26:40,996 --> 01:26:44,331 Let you incite a godless crowd? 645 01:26:44,333 --> 01:26:46,600 You don't like what I played on this? 646 01:26:49,872 --> 01:26:51,905 No one ever will. 647 01:27:02,251 --> 01:27:04,651 Power that is not righteous 648 01:27:05,221 --> 01:27:07,321 must be destroyed. 649 01:27:50,566 --> 01:27:52,833 Oh, thank you, folks. Thank you, folks. 650 01:27:52,835 --> 01:27:54,434 Thank you, thank you. 651 01:27:55,137 --> 01:27:57,437 Thank you, folks. Thank you, folks. 652 01:27:57,439 --> 01:27:58,839 So good to be back home. 653 01:27:58,841 --> 01:28:00,841 You know, when I was a little boy wearing short pants, 654 01:28:00,843 --> 01:28:03,577 I lived with my sister and my mama in the back of town. 655 01:28:03,579 --> 01:28:06,280 Yeah. Yeah, that was my neighborhood. 656 01:28:09,385 --> 01:28:11,952 I was delivering coal to the district. 657 01:28:13,555 --> 01:28:16,723 Boy, yeah, they don't talk about a district no more, now, do they? 658 01:28:18,661 --> 01:28:21,828 Yeah. Yeah, I think I remember seeing you there, Jackson, yeah. 659 01:28:21,830 --> 01:28:23,930 You had a big hat on though covering your face. 660 01:28:26,769 --> 01:28:30,370 Anyway, this one morning, I was rolling through that particular neighborhood, 661 01:28:30,372 --> 01:28:33,407 and I heard a sound that I never heard before. 662 01:28:33,409 --> 01:28:34,875 I thought, "Man..." 663 01:28:37,846 --> 01:28:39,680 And, folks, I wanna tell you something. 664 01:28:39,682 --> 01:28:42,349 He was playing the saddest tune anyone hear. 665 01:28:42,351 --> 01:28:44,217 Oh. Mmm-mmm. 666 01:28:44,219 --> 01:28:45,686 I looked at him, I said, "Mister." 667 01:28:45,688 --> 01:28:48,088 I said, "Mister." 668 01:28:48,089 --> 01:28:50,569 I said, "Why you playing so sad, why you playing so sad a tune?" 669 01:28:52,795 --> 01:28:54,115 And he looked at me and he said, 670 01:28:55,097 --> 01:28:56,830 he said, "Son, 671 01:28:56,832 --> 01:28:59,366 "today they took away the king. They took away the king." 672 01:29:15,451 --> 01:29:17,184 I said, "The king?" 673 01:29:17,186 --> 01:29:18,618 I was just a little boy, you know. 674 01:29:18,620 --> 01:29:20,253 "The king?" I said, "Who's the king?" 675 01:29:20,255 --> 01:29:21,588 He said, "'Who's the king?'" 676 01:29:21,590 --> 01:29:25,225 "Buddy Bolden." He said, "King Buddy Bolden." 677 01:29:25,227 --> 01:29:27,127 That's what he told me. 678 01:29:29,465 --> 01:29:32,232 So this one's gonna go out to King Buddy Bolden, 679 01:29:32,234 --> 01:29:34,501 the first king of New Orleans music.