1 00:00:23,224 --> 00:00:25,758 [WIND WHISTLING] 2 00:00:39,607 --> 00:00:42,207 [SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING] 3 00:00:55,689 --> 00:00:57,222 [ECHOING] 4 00:01:27,988 --> 00:01:30,422 [INDISTINCT WAILING] 5 00:01:32,927 --> 00:01:35,227 [WATER DRIPPING] 6 00:01:42,002 --> 00:01:44,136 [SQUEAKING] 7 00:01:47,608 --> 00:01:49,541 [SCRAPING] 8 00:02:01,889 --> 00:02:04,123 [MAN GRUNTING] 9 00:02:06,594 --> 00:02:08,260 [KEYS JINGLING] 10 00:02:11,966 --> 00:02:14,333 [BREATHING DEEPLY] 11 00:02:22,076 --> 00:02:24,510 [INMATES WAILING] 12 00:02:29,450 --> 00:02:31,250 [WATER DRIPPING] 13 00:02:53,174 --> 00:02:54,540 [RADIO CLICKS ON] 14 00:02:54,542 --> 00:02:56,341 [RADIO TUNING] 15 00:02:59,246 --> 00:03:02,814 MAN: [OVER RADIO] This is WSNB Radio New Orleans 16 00:03:02,816 --> 00:03:06,518 live broadcasting from the beautiful Suburban Gardens here, 17 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:09,655 where our special guest this evening, Mr. Louis Armstrong, 18 00:03:09,657 --> 00:03:13,025 is back in New Orleans after ten long years. 19 00:03:13,027 --> 00:03:16,195 He's come back here a big, big star. 20 00:03:16,197 --> 00:03:18,330 [INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO] 21 00:03:18,332 --> 00:03:20,232 ...on WSNB Radio New Orleans. 22 00:03:20,234 --> 00:03:23,202 And our next broadcast is brought to you by, 23 00:03:23,204 --> 00:03:25,604 uh, Royal Crown Hair Cream. 24 00:03:25,606 --> 00:03:27,472 That's right. Your hair'll be curling... 25 00:03:27,474 --> 00:03:28,840 [INDISTINCT CHATTER AND LAUGHTER] 26 00:03:30,077 --> 00:03:32,311 What a crowd here... 27 00:03:33,214 --> 00:03:34,546 Yes, sir. 28 00:03:34,548 --> 00:03:37,249 Our station manager handed me a paper here 29 00:03:37,251 --> 00:03:39,868 that says to his recollection, 30 00:03:39,869 --> 00:03:42,486 this will be the first time a colored boy will be on the radio in New Orleans. 31 00:03:43,857 --> 00:03:46,258 All right, so we see they're dimming the lights here, 32 00:03:46,260 --> 00:03:50,162 and, uh, our MC is approaching the microphone 33 00:03:50,164 --> 00:03:52,864 to begin this evening's broadcast. 34 00:03:52,866 --> 00:03:56,168 I ain't announcing no nigger man on the radio. 35 00:03:56,170 --> 00:03:58,303 [FEEDBACK OVER SPEAKERS] 36 00:04:06,113 --> 00:04:07,246 [FEEDBACK STOPS] 37 00:04:09,316 --> 00:04:11,383 [CLEARS THROAT] 38 00:04:11,385 --> 00:04:13,151 Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. 39 00:04:13,153 --> 00:04:14,987 I'm Mr. Armstrong. 40 00:04:14,989 --> 00:04:17,522 [AUDIENCE CHEERING] 41 00:04:22,930 --> 00:04:24,296 [WHISTLING] 42 00:04:28,802 --> 00:04:30,502 [LAUGHING] 43 00:04:31,105 --> 00:04:32,704 Hello. You like that? 44 00:04:32,706 --> 00:04:34,640 I said we back home, we back home. 45 00:04:34,642 --> 00:04:35,874 [INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO] 46 00:04:39,113 --> 00:04:40,512 Thank you, folks. Thank you, folks. 47 00:04:40,514 --> 00:04:42,648 Thank you, folks. Look out here, folks. 48 00:04:42,650 --> 00:04:45,884 Now, this goes out to all you lovely people in here 49 00:04:45,886 --> 00:04:49,288 and all my beautiful brothers and sisters outside on the levee. 50 00:04:49,890 --> 00:04:51,456 [CHEERING OVER RADIO] 51 00:04:53,093 --> 00:04:54,526 The first I'm going to play for you 52 00:04:54,528 --> 00:04:56,662 is You Rascal You. You Rascal You. 53 00:04:56,664 --> 00:04:58,030 Look out here, fellas, look out. 54 00:04:58,032 --> 00:04:59,665 You ready? Here we go. One... 55 00:05:01,535 --> 00:05:03,602 [JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO] 56 00:05:05,272 --> 00:05:07,506 [PLAYING JAZZ MUSIC] 57 00:05:10,277 --> 00:05:12,311 [MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO] 58 00:05:18,185 --> 00:05:19,484 ¶ Boy, you know one thing? 59 00:05:19,486 --> 00:05:21,653 ¶ I'll sure be glad when you're dead 60 00:05:23,424 --> 00:05:26,124 [ARMSTRONG CONTINUES CHATTERING OVER RADIO] 61 00:05:26,126 --> 00:05:27,759 ¶ Laughin' and grinnin' in my face 62 00:05:27,761 --> 00:05:30,629 ¶ You're trying to be in the back with my wife, you old dog 63 00:05:30,631 --> 00:05:31,229 [LAUGHS] 64 00:05:31,231 --> 00:05:33,732 [SCRAPING] 65 00:05:33,734 --> 00:05:36,034 [ARMSTRONG CONTINUES SINGING OVER RADIO] 66 00:05:45,879 --> 00:05:48,947 ¶ I'll be glad when you're dead you rascal, you 67 00:05:49,917 --> 00:05:52,451 [CORNET PLAYING] 68 00:05:57,024 --> 00:05:58,490 [PLAYING CORNET] 69 00:06:13,073 --> 00:06:14,706 [INMATES SHOUTING] 70 00:06:23,050 --> 00:06:25,917 ¶ I'll be glad when you're dead you rascal you 71 00:06:25,919 --> 00:06:30,255 [OVER RADIO] ¶ I'll be glad when you're dead you rascal you 72 00:06:30,257 --> 00:06:32,324 ¶ When you're layin' six feet deep 73 00:06:32,326 --> 00:06:34,926 ¶ No more fried chicken will you eat 74 00:06:34,928 --> 00:06:37,896 ¶ You ain't no good, you rascal you ¶ 75 00:06:38,632 --> 00:06:40,599 [MUSIC CONTINUES OVER RADIO] 76 00:06:42,770 --> 00:06:44,603 [MUSIC CONTINUES] 77 00:06:54,882 --> 00:06:58,550 [CHEERING] 78 00:06:59,920 --> 00:07:02,454 [ARMSTRONG LAUGHING OVER RADIO] Thank you, thank you. 79 00:07:02,456 --> 00:07:06,391 Thank you. Thank you, folks. Thank you, folks. Thank you, thank you. 80 00:07:06,393 --> 00:07:09,161 [ARMSTRONG SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY OVER RADIO] 81 00:07:09,163 --> 00:07:11,863 [SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING] 82 00:07:23,310 --> 00:07:25,177 [CORNET PLAYING] 83 00:07:38,258 --> 00:07:40,125 MAN: [OVER RADIO] Ladies and gentlemen, listen to the crowd 84 00:07:40,127 --> 00:07:44,996 welcoming home the wonderful Louis Armstrong in New Orleans. 85 00:07:44,998 --> 00:07:49,701 [INDISTINCT CHATTER CONTINUES OVER RADIO] 86 00:07:52,473 --> 00:07:54,639 MAN: This here is my sister, Miss Nora Bass. 87 00:07:54,641 --> 00:07:56,708 Nora, this is Mr. Charles Bolden. 88 00:07:56,710 --> 00:07:59,344 He live on First Street. 89 00:07:59,346 --> 00:08:03,014 Maybe you should invite Mr. Bolden to Sunday service with us. 90 00:08:06,153 --> 00:08:07,586 Nora. 91 00:08:10,357 --> 00:08:13,725 You don't seem like much a church-going man, Mr. Bolden. 92 00:08:15,195 --> 00:08:17,062 Mama and me, we go to... 93 00:08:17,064 --> 00:08:19,564 Mama and me, we go to First Street Baptist. 94 00:08:21,869 --> 00:08:23,301 Mama. 95 00:08:23,303 --> 00:08:25,237 This is Mr. Charles Bolden. 96 00:08:25,239 --> 00:08:27,639 This is my mama, Mrs. Ida Bass. 97 00:08:28,375 --> 00:08:29,474 How do you do, Mrs. Ida... 98 00:08:29,476 --> 00:08:31,710 How do you make your livin', Mr. Bolden? 99 00:08:36,550 --> 00:08:38,250 I make the church music better. 100 00:08:38,252 --> 00:08:39,851 [GIGGLING] 101 00:08:48,161 --> 00:08:49,928 I make the church music better. 102 00:08:51,365 --> 00:08:53,298 [JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING] 103 00:08:53,300 --> 00:08:54,900 [PEOPLE CHATTERING] 104 00:09:46,119 --> 00:09:47,619 [MAN SHOUTS] 105 00:09:47,621 --> 00:09:49,754 [SCREAMING] 106 00:09:50,324 --> 00:09:51,423 [GRUNTS] 107 00:09:51,425 --> 00:09:52,657 [PEOPLE SCREAMING] 108 00:09:55,295 --> 00:09:58,964 [MEN SHOUTING] 109 00:10:04,671 --> 00:10:06,304 BOLDEN: So what do a manager do? 110 00:10:06,306 --> 00:10:07,772 BARTLEY: What do a manager do? 111 00:10:08,008 --> 00:10:08,840 Oh. 112 00:10:08,842 --> 00:10:10,442 I take care of the business 113 00:10:10,444 --> 00:10:12,210 while you take care of your music. 114 00:10:13,013 --> 00:10:15,714 Your music got power. I hear it. 115 00:10:16,283 --> 00:10:18,516 I seen what it do to folks. 116 00:10:18,518 --> 00:10:20,685 -Take power like you got... -[SNAPS] 117 00:10:20,687 --> 00:10:22,721 ...combine it with a business purpose, 118 00:10:23,457 --> 00:10:25,256 that's what a manager do. 119 00:10:25,892 --> 00:10:27,292 [SLURPING] 120 00:10:27,861 --> 00:10:29,828 You a sensation, Bolden. 121 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:35,533 You play horn louder than the day's long, 122 00:10:35,535 --> 00:10:37,168 even in the hot sun. 123 00:10:37,170 --> 00:10:41,272 You got women dropping to your feet, hoping to carry your horn. 124 00:10:41,274 --> 00:10:43,875 The day you was born, you was kissed on the lips 125 00:10:43,877 --> 00:10:47,379 with something only you got, ain't nobody else got it. 126 00:10:47,848 --> 00:10:49,814 Folks hear your music, 127 00:10:49,816 --> 00:10:51,282 they understand something 128 00:10:51,284 --> 00:10:53,418 can't hardly put to words. 129 00:10:53,420 --> 00:10:54,819 [HORSE CARRIAGE APPROACHING] 130 00:10:55,589 --> 00:10:58,223 And I know how to sell what you got. 131 00:11:00,594 --> 00:11:02,927 And you... [LAUGHS] 132 00:11:02,929 --> 00:11:05,697 ...you better listen to me. 133 00:11:06,366 --> 00:11:07,932 Mmm-hmm. 134 00:11:10,904 --> 00:11:13,338 How the band supposed to make more money if we gotta pay you? 135 00:11:14,207 --> 00:11:16,941 I put you in front of a white audience. 136 00:11:19,413 --> 00:11:21,146 [RUFFLING] 137 00:11:23,183 --> 00:11:24,716 Jesus Christ, Bartley. 138 00:11:24,718 --> 00:11:27,185 Yeah. [LAUGHS] 139 00:11:27,187 --> 00:11:28,453 You ever done this? 140 00:11:28,455 --> 00:11:30,155 I got to fly the balloon. 141 00:11:33,193 --> 00:11:35,260 [RAGTIME MUSIC PLAYING] 142 00:11:54,414 --> 00:11:56,648 [LAUGHTER] 143 00:11:56,650 --> 00:11:59,684 [INDISTINCT CHATTER] 144 00:11:59,686 --> 00:12:01,720 MAN: Boy, they don't like this one bit, huh? 145 00:12:01,722 --> 00:12:03,688 [INDISTINCT CHATTER] 146 00:12:03,690 --> 00:12:05,490 How long before we gotta start this... 147 00:12:06,593 --> 00:12:08,560 -Oh, no, I'll be damned. -Oh, yeah. 148 00:12:08,562 --> 00:12:10,795 Oh, no. Buddy. 149 00:12:11,765 --> 00:12:13,131 Bartley, I don't think this is a good idea. 150 00:12:13,133 --> 00:12:15,467 Oh, you'll be all right. You'll be great. 151 00:12:15,469 --> 00:12:16,568 I won't fall? 152 00:12:16,570 --> 00:12:17,535 Come on, you got to go now. 153 00:12:17,537 --> 00:12:18,570 Yeah? 154 00:12:18,572 --> 00:12:20,238 Why the fuck am I doing this? 155 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:21,740 All right. 156 00:12:21,741 --> 00:12:23,241 I... Tell me... Tell me when to jump. 157 00:12:23,243 --> 00:12:24,843 [SCREAMING] 158 00:12:26,346 --> 00:12:29,280 Play it loud! [LAUGHS] 159 00:12:33,086 --> 00:12:36,588 -Stop the cart. Stop the cart. -Whoa, whoa. 160 00:12:36,590 --> 00:12:38,857 [RAGTIME MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING] 161 00:12:47,300 --> 00:12:48,967 [SCREAMING] 162 00:12:52,205 --> 00:12:54,539 [GRUNTS] 163 00:12:59,913 --> 00:13:01,246 Oh. 164 00:13:07,387 --> 00:13:10,321 [PLAYING CORNET] 165 00:13:33,580 --> 00:13:34,846 [BAND STOPS PLAYING] 166 00:13:37,450 --> 00:13:38,650 [BRANCHES SNAPPING] 167 00:13:38,652 --> 00:13:39,884 [BOLDEN EXCLAIMS] 168 00:13:40,687 --> 00:13:42,387 [RAGTIME MUSIC RESUMES] 169 00:13:43,290 --> 00:13:44,889 [CORNET PLAYING] 170 00:13:47,794 --> 00:13:49,994 [CROWD SHOUTING] 171 00:14:00,106 --> 00:14:02,307 Thanks for the crowd. [LAUGHS] 172 00:14:02,909 --> 00:14:04,843 [DRUMS PLAYING] 173 00:14:09,049 --> 00:14:10,648 Whoo! 174 00:14:10,650 --> 00:14:13,117 BAND: Hey, Buddy Bolden! 175 00:14:14,721 --> 00:14:16,487 [RAGTIME MUSIC CONTINUES] 176 00:14:20,861 --> 00:14:22,293 MAN: Whoo! 177 00:14:35,408 --> 00:14:37,175 [BANDS CLASHING] 178 00:14:41,114 --> 00:14:42,080 Stop. 179 00:15:27,427 --> 00:15:29,827 [CHEERING] 180 00:15:29,829 --> 00:15:34,265 [ARMSTRONG CHATTERING OVER RADIO] 181 00:15:34,267 --> 00:15:35,700 ARMSTRONG: Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, thank you. 182 00:15:35,702 --> 00:15:38,703 I see that we have someone who can't not be here today. 183 00:15:38,705 --> 00:15:40,855 Right over there. 184 00:15:40,856 --> 00:15:43,006 You know, folks, they helped me get my very first cornet. 185 00:15:43,009 --> 00:15:44,309 Yes, they did. 186 00:15:44,311 --> 00:15:46,411 I was just a little boy back then. 187 00:15:47,681 --> 00:15:49,781 [JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING] 188 00:15:49,783 --> 00:15:51,382 [ARMSTRONG CHATTERING] 189 00:15:54,754 --> 00:15:57,288 ¶ Oh, that's it right there 190 00:15:58,458 --> 00:16:00,825 ¶ Every night 191 00:16:00,827 --> 00:16:03,795 ¶ You'll hear her croon 192 00:16:03,797 --> 00:16:08,333 ¶ A Russian lullaby 193 00:16:09,302 --> 00:16:10,601 ¶ Oh, just 194 00:16:11,738 --> 00:16:14,939 ¶ Just a little plaintive tune 195 00:16:14,941 --> 00:16:19,077 ¶ When baby starts to cry 196 00:16:19,079 --> 00:16:20,979 [ARMSTRONG SCATTING] 197 00:16:20,981 --> 00:16:26,284 ¶ Rock-a-bye, my baby... ¶ 198 00:16:27,854 --> 00:16:29,687 [LOOM SQUEAKING] 199 00:16:31,124 --> 00:16:32,757 [WHEELS SQUEAKING] 200 00:16:35,128 --> 00:16:37,161 [ARMSTRONG CHATTERING OVER RADIO] 201 00:16:44,037 --> 00:16:46,037 You all right down here, Buddy? 202 00:16:47,507 --> 00:16:49,307 [LOOMS WHIRRING] 203 00:17:12,899 --> 00:17:14,665 [SEWING MACHINE CLICKING] 204 00:17:20,774 --> 00:17:22,206 [HISSING] 205 00:17:26,980 --> 00:17:28,579 [THUMP] 206 00:17:31,718 --> 00:17:33,284 [HISSING] 207 00:17:42,228 --> 00:17:44,629 -[CLACKS] -[HISSING] 208 00:18:05,351 --> 00:18:09,087 [SOUNDS COMBINING IN RHYTHM] 209 00:18:22,035 --> 00:18:24,302 [JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING] 210 00:19:10,617 --> 00:19:12,049 [MUSIC FADES] 211 00:19:12,051 --> 00:19:13,618 [MACHINE WHIRRING] 212 00:19:20,827 --> 00:19:24,862 MAN: [OVER RADIO] ...Radio broadcasting live from Suburban Gardens 213 00:19:24,864 --> 00:19:27,064 in New Orleans. 214 00:19:27,066 --> 00:19:30,301 [CONTINUES CHATTERING] 215 00:19:36,609 --> 00:19:38,409 [JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING] 216 00:19:57,297 --> 00:19:59,230 MAN: Evening, Bolden. 217 00:20:00,466 --> 00:20:02,400 As an officer of the court, 218 00:20:02,402 --> 00:20:06,771 I am duty-bound to make a periodic assessment 219 00:20:06,773 --> 00:20:10,942 of the conditions in our state prisons and asylums. 220 00:20:10,944 --> 00:20:15,112 As presiding judge of the Criminal Court or Orleans parish, 221 00:20:15,114 --> 00:20:17,782 I am the final arbiter 222 00:20:17,784 --> 00:20:20,985 of your life and liberty. 223 00:20:20,987 --> 00:20:23,821 I'm here because you're here. 224 00:20:29,062 --> 00:20:30,761 "Servants... 225 00:20:30,763 --> 00:20:32,997 "be obedient to them that are your masters. 226 00:20:32,999 --> 00:20:36,500 "according to the flesh, with fear and trembling..." 227 00:20:38,538 --> 00:20:42,506 That's the way the world moves on, Bolden. 228 00:20:43,343 --> 00:20:45,476 Hate your oppressors 229 00:20:45,478 --> 00:20:48,846 and you'll be enslaved forever by your memories. 230 00:20:49,482 --> 00:20:50,848 [GRUNTING] 231 00:20:57,257 --> 00:20:58,823 -[BOYS SHOUTING] -BARTLEY: Hey! 232 00:20:59,559 --> 00:21:01,643 Hey! 233 00:21:01,644 --> 00:21:03,728 Kid, you gotta put 'em up or you gonna get hit. 234 00:21:04,664 --> 00:21:05,997 All right, you two. 235 00:21:05,999 --> 00:21:07,131 Go on. Come on. 236 00:21:07,133 --> 00:21:08,633 [BOYS CHEERING] 237 00:21:28,354 --> 00:21:30,021 [INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING] 238 00:21:35,795 --> 00:21:38,296 -[GRUNTING] -What'd I tell you? What'd I tell you? 239 00:21:58,217 --> 00:21:59,717 Come on now, come on! 240 00:21:59,719 --> 00:22:00,918 [GRUNTING] 241 00:22:24,644 --> 00:22:26,243 [METAL CLANGING] 242 00:22:26,245 --> 00:22:28,112 [CORNET ECHOING] 243 00:22:37,457 --> 00:22:39,223 [MATCHSTICK FLARING] 244 00:22:39,225 --> 00:22:40,825 [SLOW JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING] 245 00:23:29,442 --> 00:23:31,008 [MUSIC FADES] 246 00:23:31,010 --> 00:23:32,743 BOLDEN: Come on down and see me play tonight. 247 00:23:32,745 --> 00:23:34,512 NORA: And leave Mama all alone? 248 00:23:34,514 --> 00:23:35,913 No. Bring her with. 249 00:23:35,915 --> 00:23:37,948 She can dance like we do in church. 250 00:23:37,950 --> 00:23:40,584 -What? -I know she can. 251 00:23:43,890 --> 00:23:45,723 [MUSIC RESUMES] 252 00:24:17,423 --> 00:24:19,156 [CORNET PLAYING] 253 00:24:32,405 --> 00:24:33,671 [GASPS] 254 00:24:41,147 --> 00:24:42,179 Hold this. 255 00:24:42,181 --> 00:24:43,714 [GASPING] 256 00:24:53,192 --> 00:24:55,125 Come on, you go it. 257 00:24:57,463 --> 00:24:59,530 [MUTTERING] 258 00:25:03,035 --> 00:25:04,201 God damn. 259 00:25:09,208 --> 00:25:10,608 [THUDS] 260 00:25:11,444 --> 00:25:13,511 [PLAYING CORNET] 261 00:25:16,182 --> 00:25:17,648 Why we out here? 262 00:25:17,650 --> 00:25:19,116 Women are dancing over here. 263 00:25:19,719 --> 00:25:21,752 Buddy, dancing's inside. 264 00:25:21,754 --> 00:25:23,320 [CHUCKLES] 265 00:25:23,322 --> 00:25:25,289 Ain't never enough dancers for that. 266 00:25:25,291 --> 00:25:26,690 You gotta call 'em all. 267 00:25:26,692 --> 00:25:28,926 Can't you call, call 'em from inside? 268 00:25:31,063 --> 00:25:33,097 So you're just gonna keep playing, huh? 269 00:25:36,369 --> 00:25:38,202 You know what's between them stars? 270 00:25:38,204 --> 00:25:39,870 Don't start with that shit, Buddy. 271 00:25:39,872 --> 00:25:40,905 Space. 272 00:25:40,907 --> 00:25:42,206 Please, man. Shit. 273 00:25:42,208 --> 00:25:43,841 Ain't nothin' but time. 274 00:25:46,946 --> 00:25:48,212 Yeah. 275 00:26:13,439 --> 00:26:14,772 [KNOCKING ON WINDOW] 276 00:26:21,013 --> 00:26:22,212 Nora. 277 00:26:24,984 --> 00:26:26,250 Shh. 278 00:26:28,654 --> 00:26:31,388 -Nora. -Shh. 279 00:26:31,390 --> 00:26:34,258 [WHISPERING] What are you doing here? 280 00:26:34,260 --> 00:26:37,061 -[GASPS] -Nora, why you don't come see me play? 281 00:26:38,631 --> 00:26:41,298 A lady don't go where the Bolden band play. 282 00:26:43,369 --> 00:26:45,636 Oh. 283 00:26:45,638 --> 00:26:48,906 Mama said you grow up too wild for a good girl. 284 00:26:48,908 --> 00:26:51,108 All that rockin' in church, 285 00:26:51,110 --> 00:26:52,810 she don't like that, no. 286 00:27:00,686 --> 00:27:02,920 Mama don't like your music neither. 287 00:27:06,392 --> 00:27:08,425 [JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING] 288 00:27:08,427 --> 00:27:10,127 BOLDEN: Hey, whoa, whoa! 289 00:27:10,963 --> 00:27:12,863 Y'all ain't playin' it right. 290 00:27:15,768 --> 00:27:17,501 Put your horns down. Put 'em down, put 'em down. 291 00:27:17,503 --> 00:27:19,837 We, we, we, we're gonna clap it out. 292 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. 293 00:27:22,174 --> 00:27:23,874 -This one? -[PLAYS DRUMS] 294 00:27:24,677 --> 00:27:26,377 Yeah, yeah, that's it. Four. 295 00:27:26,379 --> 00:27:27,678 Now, Johnson. 296 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,414 Ba, ba, ba-ra, ba-ra. 297 00:27:30,416 --> 00:27:32,716 Ba, ba, ba-ra, ba-ra. 298 00:27:34,553 --> 00:27:36,854 See how that feels? Yeah, yeah, that's it. 299 00:27:36,856 --> 00:27:38,555 Now, Mumford, give me time. 300 00:27:38,557 --> 00:27:40,624 [SCATTING TO BEAT] 301 00:27:40,626 --> 00:27:42,426 [PLAYING GUITAR] 302 00:27:43,596 --> 00:27:45,929 Oh, yeah. Cornish, come on down. 303 00:27:45,931 --> 00:27:47,998 -Hit two and four. -[CLAPPING TO BEAT] 304 00:27:49,635 --> 00:27:51,168 Come on, Cornish. 305 00:27:51,170 --> 00:27:52,469 -[CLAPPING] -Da. Da. 306 00:27:52,471 --> 00:27:53,404 Let's go. 307 00:27:54,540 --> 00:27:56,306 Yeah. Yeah, that's right. 308 00:27:58,077 --> 00:27:59,009 Yeah. 309 00:27:59,011 --> 00:28:00,077 Now, Warner. 310 00:28:01,147 --> 00:28:03,447 Pay attention. Look. You're gonna hit the four. 311 00:28:03,449 --> 00:28:05,949 [CLAPPING TO BEAT] 312 00:28:07,420 --> 00:28:08,752 Come on, Warner. 313 00:28:11,457 --> 00:28:13,023 [JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING] 314 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:16,060 Oh, yeah. 315 00:28:19,231 --> 00:28:20,731 [CLAPPING TO BEAT] 316 00:28:26,806 --> 00:28:28,238 Listen, listen. 317 00:28:32,478 --> 00:28:33,877 That's it. 318 00:28:35,581 --> 00:28:37,281 Oh! 319 00:28:37,283 --> 00:28:38,849 [CLAPPING TO BEAT] 320 00:28:45,624 --> 00:28:47,324 Yeah, ha. 321 00:28:52,498 --> 00:28:54,031 [ARMSTRONG SCATTING] 322 00:28:55,868 --> 00:28:58,068 This music about talking to each other. 323 00:28:58,437 --> 00:28:59,903 Yeah. Come on. 324 00:29:00,573 --> 00:29:02,539 Now y'all havin' a conversation. 325 00:29:02,541 --> 00:29:03,841 [CORNET BLOWS] 326 00:29:03,843 --> 00:29:05,776 -Who said that? -[CORNET BLOWS] 327 00:29:05,778 --> 00:29:06,944 Why would you now... 328 00:29:06,946 --> 00:29:07,911 Yeah! 329 00:29:13,419 --> 00:29:14,351 Come on. 330 00:29:28,701 --> 00:29:30,234 [MUSIC FADES] 331 00:29:31,837 --> 00:29:33,237 [MUSIC RESUMES] 332 00:29:33,639 --> 00:29:35,239 [CHEERING] 333 00:29:38,544 --> 00:29:39,476 I love you! 334 00:29:54,527 --> 00:29:56,160 [LAUGHING] 335 00:29:58,731 --> 00:30:00,063 Mama. 336 00:30:02,835 --> 00:30:04,301 Nora gonna move in with us. 337 00:30:15,247 --> 00:30:16,346 NORA: Mmm. 338 00:30:16,347 --> 00:30:17,446 -Yeah. That's it. -[GIGGLING] 339 00:30:17,449 --> 00:30:19,283 Ease into it like that. 340 00:30:19,718 --> 00:30:21,118 And you gotta, um... 341 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,387 Get your... Get your wrists loose. 342 00:30:23,389 --> 00:30:24,872 See that. 343 00:30:24,873 --> 00:30:26,356 [BLOWS RASPBERRY] Blow your lips. Like that. 344 00:30:26,358 --> 00:30:27,858 -You blow... -[GIGGLES] 345 00:30:27,860 --> 00:30:30,260 -[BLOWS RASPBERRY] -Yeah, like... 346 00:30:30,262 --> 00:30:31,895 [LAUGHING] 347 00:30:34,633 --> 00:30:37,467 IDA: I ain't raise my daughter for the likes of you. 348 00:30:37,469 --> 00:30:40,537 How you fixin' to make a livin' playing your horn? 349 00:30:41,540 --> 00:30:43,373 Why can't you get a real job? 350 00:30:46,579 --> 00:30:48,645 [WALTZ MUSIC PLAYING] 351 00:30:48,647 --> 00:30:50,914 [INDISTINCT CHATTER AND LAUGHTER] 352 00:31:30,155 --> 00:31:31,788 [MUSIC ENDS] 353 00:31:31,790 --> 00:31:33,390 [CHATTER CONTINUES] 354 00:31:41,467 --> 00:31:42,900 [PLAYING JAZZ MUSIC] 355 00:31:42,902 --> 00:31:44,501 [CROWD SHOUTING] 356 00:31:52,578 --> 00:31:54,077 You dressing for church? 357 00:31:54,079 --> 00:31:58,615 I don't wanna hear nothing about that First Street Baptist Church. 358 00:32:03,389 --> 00:32:04,688 We're Episcopal. 359 00:32:06,158 --> 00:32:07,925 [MUSIC PLAYING FAINTLY] 360 00:32:11,130 --> 00:32:12,763 Yeah. 361 00:32:12,764 --> 00:32:14,397 ALICE: I got a new collar for your shirt. 362 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,434 BOLDEN: Mama, I ain't wearing a collar. It's too tight around my neck. 363 00:32:18,804 --> 00:32:20,404 Where you performing at? 364 00:32:20,773 --> 00:32:22,205 Union Sons Hall. 365 00:32:23,442 --> 00:32:25,809 They call it the Funky Butt when you're out playing. 366 00:32:25,811 --> 00:32:27,411 Yeah, Mama. But how you know that? 367 00:32:27,413 --> 00:32:28,445 I hear things. 368 00:32:28,447 --> 00:32:29,980 [PLAYING JAZZ MUSIC] 369 00:32:29,982 --> 00:32:32,015 No, Mama, no. No, Mama. 370 00:32:33,619 --> 00:32:35,052 No, Mama, please. 371 00:32:36,322 --> 00:32:37,921 Mama, please, I can't breathe with that on. 372 00:32:37,923 --> 00:32:38,989 But you look good. 373 00:32:38,991 --> 00:32:40,657 Can't breathe in it. 374 00:32:44,830 --> 00:32:46,596 [MUSIC SLOWS] 375 00:32:54,707 --> 00:32:56,139 CROWD: Hey! 376 00:32:57,643 --> 00:32:59,109 Hey! 377 00:33:00,446 --> 00:33:01,478 Hey! 378 00:33:03,449 --> 00:33:04,648 Hey! 379 00:33:06,385 --> 00:33:07,651 Hey! 380 00:33:09,254 --> 00:33:10,354 Hey! 381 00:33:15,594 --> 00:33:17,461 [CROWD CHEERING] 382 00:33:50,562 --> 00:33:52,329 [CROWD CHEERING] 383 00:33:54,900 --> 00:33:56,366 WOMAN: Bolden! 384 00:33:56,368 --> 00:33:57,300 WARNER: Buddy. 385 00:33:57,870 --> 00:34:00,003 Buddy! Where you at, man? 386 00:34:00,005 --> 00:34:01,805 [DOOR BANGS] 387 00:34:01,807 --> 00:34:04,107 There you are. I been lookin' all over. 388 00:34:04,109 --> 00:34:06,676 Evenin', Warner. This here is Mavis. 389 00:34:07,379 --> 00:34:09,279 Hey, Mavis. 390 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,180 Bolden, we got a big crowd waitin' on you, man. 391 00:34:11,183 --> 00:34:12,716 We're busy now, honey. 392 00:34:12,718 --> 00:34:15,552 And George Baquet, waitin' out there with his horn. 393 00:34:16,455 --> 00:34:19,089 Blue-eyed tan man comin' to our neighborhood? 394 00:34:19,091 --> 00:34:20,490 [DOOR SHUTS] 395 00:34:20,492 --> 00:34:22,426 BOLDEN: Warner, you worried about George Baquet? 396 00:34:22,428 --> 00:34:24,061 That motherfucker comin' for my job. 397 00:34:24,063 --> 00:34:25,629 WARNER: Ain't nobody comin' for your job. 398 00:34:25,631 --> 00:34:27,964 BOLDEN: Why you think the best paid clarinet man in New Orleans 399 00:34:27,966 --> 00:34:29,366 come to the pit to play with us? 400 00:34:29,368 --> 00:34:31,301 Jimmy Palao got the light-skin niggers, too. 401 00:34:31,303 --> 00:34:32,836 Nobody come for your job. 402 00:34:32,838 --> 00:34:35,205 He ain't so white like they talk. 403 00:34:35,207 --> 00:34:40,243 -[CELLO PLAYING] -WOMAN: ¶ Make me a pallet on your floor 404 00:34:43,315 --> 00:34:47,851 ¶ Make me a pallet on your floor 405 00:34:47,853 --> 00:34:49,453 What she doin' here? 406 00:34:50,756 --> 00:34:54,324 ¶ If you make me a pallet 407 00:34:54,326 --> 00:34:58,328 ¶ I swear your woman will never know 408 00:34:59,598 --> 00:35:04,634 ¶ Make me a pallet on your floor 409 00:35:28,393 --> 00:35:30,193 Play your heart out, Buddy Bolden. 410 00:35:31,063 --> 00:35:32,429 [INAUDIBLE] 411 00:35:37,169 --> 00:35:39,169 WOMAN: ¶ Make it soft 412 00:35:39,171 --> 00:35:42,806 ¶ Make it easy make it flow 413 00:35:45,577 --> 00:35:47,410 ¶ Make it soft 414 00:35:47,412 --> 00:35:51,648 ¶ Make it easy make it slow 415 00:35:54,052 --> 00:35:57,220 ¶ When she comes in 416 00:35:57,222 --> 00:36:01,057 ¶ I swear she would never know 417 00:36:01,059 --> 00:36:06,863 ¶ That you make me a pallet down upon your floor ¶ 418 00:36:18,310 --> 00:36:20,210 NORA: I'm pregnant. 419 00:36:20,846 --> 00:36:22,846 [BABIES CRYING] 420 00:36:23,782 --> 00:36:25,215 A baby? 421 00:36:25,951 --> 00:36:27,651 You can't take care of yourself. 422 00:36:29,254 --> 00:36:31,688 Ain't you got one already? A little boy? 423 00:36:34,026 --> 00:36:36,092 [CORNET PLAYS ON RADIO] 424 00:36:36,094 --> 00:36:38,094 [CHEERING] 425 00:36:38,096 --> 00:36:40,764 ARMSTRONG: Yeah! 426 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:43,767 JUDGE PERRY: Right and wrong. 427 00:36:45,070 --> 00:36:48,238 Oh, it can be so confusing. 428 00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:50,106 Lord wrote a book about it. 429 00:36:50,108 --> 00:36:53,276 Civil societies are defined by it. 430 00:36:55,314 --> 00:36:58,181 You just don't know the difference. 431 00:36:58,183 --> 00:37:00,417 Niggers don't know right from wrong. 432 00:37:02,487 --> 00:37:04,721 You are not in God's image. 433 00:37:12,464 --> 00:37:14,497 NORA: We're gonna have a baby, Buddy. 434 00:37:18,637 --> 00:37:19,703 Come on. 435 00:37:20,706 --> 00:37:22,772 [SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING] 436 00:38:02,447 --> 00:38:04,281 BARTLEY: King Bolden. 437 00:38:04,283 --> 00:38:06,750 I want you to meet George Baquet. 438 00:38:14,693 --> 00:38:15,759 Hey, George. 439 00:38:21,199 --> 00:38:23,033 You come to copy me? 440 00:38:23,035 --> 00:38:24,367 BARTLEY: Don't worry, Warner. 441 00:38:24,369 --> 00:38:26,736 He just want to do a couple of rounds with Bolden. 442 00:38:34,012 --> 00:38:36,046 [CHEERING] 443 00:38:36,848 --> 00:38:38,782 [PLAYING UPBEAT MUSIC] 444 00:38:38,784 --> 00:38:40,650 [CROWD CHEERING] 445 00:38:46,158 --> 00:38:47,924 [PLAYING CORNET SOLO] 446 00:39:22,928 --> 00:39:24,861 [CHEERING] 447 00:39:39,878 --> 00:39:41,578 [TEMPO INCREASES] 448 00:39:50,756 --> 00:39:51,721 Yeah! 449 00:40:14,179 --> 00:40:15,779 [ALL CHEERING] 450 00:40:19,017 --> 00:40:21,751 Ladies and gentlemen, this here George Baquet. 451 00:40:36,201 --> 00:40:37,834 [SOUNDS FADING] 452 00:40:44,309 --> 00:40:45,775 [CLATTERING] 453 00:40:48,180 --> 00:40:50,180 YOUNG BOLDEN: Here, here, let me show you how to. 454 00:40:50,816 --> 00:40:52,449 [CLARINET PLAYING] 455 00:40:55,086 --> 00:40:56,453 Warner, come and get me! 456 00:40:57,489 --> 00:40:59,589 Come on, Warner, come and get me. 457 00:41:00,659 --> 00:41:01,658 Come on. 458 00:41:07,299 --> 00:41:09,132 [CLARINET CONTINUES PLAYING] 459 00:41:26,151 --> 00:41:28,117 [WATER DRIPPING] 460 00:41:30,522 --> 00:41:33,122 It's all right. It's all right. 461 00:41:34,092 --> 00:41:35,558 You'll get this. 462 00:41:37,562 --> 00:41:39,596 GEORGE: Bolden, do you write your music down? 463 00:41:40,332 --> 00:41:42,765 Can you write it down? 464 00:41:42,767 --> 00:41:44,300 We're composing on the bandstand, you know? 465 00:41:44,302 --> 00:41:47,637 So, it's... It's like we're talking to each other. 466 00:41:47,639 --> 00:41:48,972 We're havin' a conversation. 467 00:41:48,974 --> 00:41:51,674 I let the notes play on through, that's what I do. 468 00:41:52,444 --> 00:41:54,010 Just got to listen. 469 00:41:54,012 --> 00:41:56,646 I never play without the music right in front of me. 470 00:41:57,182 --> 00:41:58,615 [EXHALES] 471 00:41:58,617 --> 00:42:00,717 You play it the same, same, same, same, same. 472 00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:02,852 I don't do none of that. I play it my way. 473 00:42:02,854 --> 00:42:04,738 Every time. 474 00:42:04,739 --> 00:42:06,623 And that string may, it may never come out the same 475 00:42:06,625 --> 00:42:07,891 so how you gonna write it down? 476 00:42:07,893 --> 00:42:09,359 How you gonna write it down, huh? 477 00:42:09,361 --> 00:42:10,960 Bolden if you don't write your music down, 478 00:42:10,962 --> 00:42:12,896 how's anyone gonna play it when you're gone? 479 00:42:12,898 --> 00:42:15,832 You don't understand. It's a... It's a livin' thing. 480 00:42:15,834 --> 00:42:17,901 It's, it's, it's... It's me and the whole band. 481 00:42:17,903 --> 00:42:20,136 We, we, we just breathing together. 482 00:42:21,773 --> 00:42:23,806 So you don't even know what you're gonna play. 483 00:42:24,376 --> 00:42:26,142 You know, sometimes I... 484 00:42:26,144 --> 00:42:28,578 [WATER DRIPPING] 485 00:42:28,580 --> 00:42:31,080 I think it's better not to play anything at all. 486 00:42:36,555 --> 00:42:39,756 Bolden, try playing around this. 487 00:42:49,267 --> 00:42:51,167 [CLARINET PLAYING] 488 00:43:25,904 --> 00:43:27,904 [DUET CONTINUES] 489 00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:50,760 [WATER DRIPPING] 490 00:43:53,465 --> 00:43:55,732 [CHILDREN LAUGHING] 491 00:43:56,134 --> 00:43:58,701 [CORNET PLAYING] 492 00:44:24,129 --> 00:44:26,329 You think Warner holding back the band? 493 00:44:27,298 --> 00:44:28,931 He been working hard. 494 00:44:29,968 --> 00:44:31,968 But I'm with you whatever you decide. 495 00:44:34,572 --> 00:44:36,406 [MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING] 496 00:44:55,593 --> 00:44:58,294 [MEN SINGING RIDE ON KING JESUS] 497 00:44:59,364 --> 00:45:00,496 ¶ Ride on 498 00:45:00,498 --> 00:45:03,032 ¶ No man can hinder thee 499 00:45:03,034 --> 00:45:06,703 -¶ Ride on -¶ Ride on King Jesus 500 00:45:06,705 --> 00:45:08,271 ¶ Ride on 501 00:45:08,273 --> 00:45:11,207 ¶ No man can hinder thee 502 00:45:11,209 --> 00:45:12,642 ¶ Ride on 503 00:45:12,644 --> 00:45:15,611 -¶ Ride on - ¶ Ride on King Jesus 504 00:45:15,613 --> 00:45:17,346 ¶ Ride on 505 00:45:17,348 --> 00:45:18,815 ¶ No man can... ¶ 506 00:45:18,817 --> 00:45:20,917 [BOAT HORN BLOWS] 507 00:45:20,919 --> 00:45:22,985 You know what this country needs? 508 00:45:23,521 --> 00:45:24,854 What's that? 509 00:45:24,856 --> 00:45:27,090 A negro heavyweight champ. 510 00:45:27,826 --> 00:45:29,492 Jack Johnson the champ, man. 511 00:45:29,494 --> 00:45:31,127 He the color champ. 512 00:45:31,129 --> 00:45:33,062 White champ won't even fight him. 513 00:45:33,064 --> 00:45:34,731 No. 514 00:45:34,733 --> 00:45:37,600 White champ ain't gonna fight your ministry boys 515 00:45:37,602 --> 00:45:39,001 and you wanna know why? 516 00:45:39,003 --> 00:45:40,036 Why? 517 00:45:40,038 --> 00:45:42,038 'Cause they don't find us serious. 518 00:45:42,407 --> 00:45:44,440 [CHUCKLES] 519 00:45:44,442 --> 00:45:48,010 Gettin' in a ring with Jack Johnson's pretty goddamn serious. 520 00:45:52,250 --> 00:45:53,449 White folks... 521 00:45:54,853 --> 00:45:56,919 they're gonna have to reckon with talent. 522 00:45:59,390 --> 00:46:01,491 Bolden, you know about 523 00:46:02,193 --> 00:46:03,960 cylinder recording? 524 00:46:05,830 --> 00:46:08,698 -Cylinder recording? -Mmm-hmm. 525 00:46:08,700 --> 00:46:10,600 Put your music in a machine. 526 00:46:10,602 --> 00:46:12,368 [BOAT HORN BLOWS] 527 00:46:22,213 --> 00:46:24,647 BOLDEN: Bartley know a man put music in a tin can. 528 00:46:24,649 --> 00:46:26,349 NORA: Music in a tin can? 529 00:46:26,351 --> 00:46:27,617 Yeah. 530 00:46:27,619 --> 00:46:28,818 Well, how do it work? 531 00:46:28,820 --> 00:46:30,486 You sound music into a machine 532 00:46:30,488 --> 00:46:32,355 and the machine put out a tin can. 533 00:46:32,357 --> 00:46:35,424 They'll put tin can back into the machine, and that music come out. 534 00:46:37,362 --> 00:46:38,928 B... 535 00:46:38,930 --> 00:46:40,763 Music in a tin can? 536 00:46:40,765 --> 00:46:42,765 What it sound like? 537 00:46:42,767 --> 00:46:44,700 I don't know. I never heard it. 538 00:46:44,702 --> 00:46:46,469 But Bartley say it sound like money. 539 00:46:47,572 --> 00:46:49,438 Sounds like magic. 540 00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:51,174 [LAUGHS] Yeah. 541 00:46:51,176 --> 00:46:54,911 Folks will hear my music, but I'm invisible. 542 00:46:54,913 --> 00:46:56,312 I don't know, Nora. 543 00:46:56,314 --> 00:46:58,848 People hearing you play and you ain't there? 544 00:46:58,850 --> 00:47:00,383 [WATER DRIPPING] 545 00:47:01,085 --> 00:47:02,285 Yeah. 546 00:47:10,562 --> 00:47:12,061 [SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING] 547 00:47:13,364 --> 00:47:15,198 [INMATES WAILING] 548 00:47:25,176 --> 00:47:27,243 [SHOUTING] 549 00:47:46,931 --> 00:47:48,865 [ALL SHOUTING] 550 00:47:57,575 --> 00:47:59,008 MAN: This is a shit hole! 551 00:47:59,944 --> 00:48:02,678 Gotta get a better place! 552 00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:05,014 And I want bigger niggers next time. 553 00:48:07,952 --> 00:48:10,186 [FOOTSTEPS ECHOING] 554 00:48:35,813 --> 00:48:37,480 [INTENSE MUSIC CONTINUES] 555 00:48:48,393 --> 00:48:49,692 This cost a dime. 556 00:48:50,929 --> 00:48:53,629 Sell 50 vials, you make a dollar. 557 00:48:55,867 --> 00:49:00,136 Sell 100 vials, you get $2.10. 558 00:49:01,606 --> 00:49:03,239 As business gets better, 559 00:49:04,676 --> 00:49:06,042 y'all do better. 560 00:49:07,812 --> 00:49:09,578 There's money in recording music. 561 00:49:11,582 --> 00:49:13,983 You gonna put your music in Bartley's machine? 562 00:49:16,454 --> 00:49:18,688 If there's a machine play your music, 563 00:49:18,690 --> 00:49:20,156 more folks gonna hear. 564 00:49:20,758 --> 00:49:22,792 White folks, too. 565 00:49:22,794 --> 00:49:24,627 They the ones can afford the machine. 566 00:49:25,396 --> 00:49:26,562 [INAUDIBLE] 567 00:49:39,644 --> 00:49:41,010 [INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING] 568 00:49:50,355 --> 00:49:52,154 [WATER DRIPPING] 569 00:50:00,498 --> 00:50:01,564 [INAUDIBLE] 570 00:50:06,404 --> 00:50:09,105 JUDGE PERRY: Desire and desperation 571 00:50:09,107 --> 00:50:12,208 are dangerous motivations, Bolden. 572 00:50:13,011 --> 00:50:14,243 [WOMAN WAILS] 573 00:50:16,581 --> 00:50:18,180 Humility recedes 574 00:50:18,182 --> 00:50:21,217 and loyalty vanishes. 575 00:50:22,053 --> 00:50:24,453 One thing stays the same. 576 00:50:24,455 --> 00:50:26,522 There's always someone who can do it better. 577 00:50:26,524 --> 00:50:28,190 [CROWD CHEERING] 578 00:50:35,967 --> 00:50:38,601 [PLAYING UPBEAT MUSIC] 579 00:50:38,603 --> 00:50:39,668 [CROWD CLAPPING IN RHYTHM] 580 00:50:57,722 --> 00:50:59,355 [ALL CHEERING] 581 00:51:01,893 --> 00:51:03,492 MAN: Teach him a lesson, Buddy. 582 00:51:04,062 --> 00:51:05,494 [CHEERING] 583 00:51:08,266 --> 00:51:09,532 BOLDEN: Yeah, all right. Thank you. 584 00:51:11,969 --> 00:51:13,369 [PLAYS HOLLOW NOTE] 585 00:51:15,673 --> 00:51:17,807 [WATER DRIPPING] 586 00:51:17,809 --> 00:51:19,842 [INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING] 587 00:51:26,717 --> 00:51:29,952 [SOFTLY] Warner, I can't find the valves to my horn. 588 00:51:29,954 --> 00:51:31,587 You have the valves right here. Look. 589 00:51:31,589 --> 00:51:32,655 You're fine. 590 00:51:32,657 --> 00:51:33,756 I'm not fine, Warner. 591 00:51:57,982 --> 00:51:59,548 [CROWD SHOUTING] 592 00:52:09,494 --> 00:52:10,226 Buddy. 593 00:52:10,228 --> 00:52:11,794 [CROWD CHATTERING] 594 00:52:12,230 --> 00:52:13,529 Play somethin'. 595 00:52:15,233 --> 00:52:18,134 He's gonna let some other motherfucker right in 596 00:52:18,136 --> 00:52:19,301 and steal our shit off? 597 00:52:19,303 --> 00:52:21,303 Who gonna catch us, Buddy? 598 00:52:21,304 --> 00:52:23,304 BOLDEN: Cornish , Cornish, Cornish. You're supposed to be on my side. 599 00:52:23,307 --> 00:52:26,308 Can't nobody do what we do, baby. 600 00:52:26,310 --> 00:52:29,778 You gotta put your music in that man's machine, motherfucker. 601 00:52:31,516 --> 00:52:32,448 [KNOCK ON DOOR] 602 00:52:32,450 --> 00:52:33,449 [BELL CHIMING] 603 00:52:34,018 --> 00:52:36,385 King Bolden. You ready? 604 00:52:37,121 --> 00:52:39,255 Are you ready, Warner? 605 00:52:39,257 --> 00:52:41,223 Ain't I lookin' ready? 606 00:52:41,225 --> 00:52:42,858 We gonna play at Butcher Hollow tonight. 607 00:52:42,860 --> 00:52:43,792 No. 608 00:52:45,029 --> 00:52:46,529 It hurts my ears, man. 609 00:52:46,531 --> 00:52:48,797 The sound comin' off of that wall, it's, uh, 610 00:52:48,799 --> 00:52:50,299 messin' with my time, so... 611 00:52:50,301 --> 00:52:52,067 We go now, we'll be right on time. 612 00:52:52,069 --> 00:52:53,869 Right on the down beat. 613 00:52:53,871 --> 00:52:56,872 Warner, listen to me. My lip ain't balmed, so... 614 00:52:58,142 --> 00:53:01,143 So get on down there. I'll meet y'all over there. 615 00:53:01,145 --> 00:53:02,711 Come on, man, we gotta go to work. 616 00:53:02,713 --> 00:53:04,680 "Go to work"? Warner, you goin' to work. 617 00:53:07,752 --> 00:53:08,984 You all right, Buddy? 618 00:53:08,986 --> 00:53:10,186 Goddamn! Warner, get out! 619 00:53:10,188 --> 00:53:11,120 Warner get out! 620 00:53:11,122 --> 00:53:12,888 Get on out. 621 00:53:12,890 --> 00:53:14,423 And I'll be right over. 622 00:53:15,059 --> 00:53:16,392 Okay? 623 00:53:21,566 --> 00:53:23,699 Well, I guess I'll see you over there, Buddy. 624 00:53:30,841 --> 00:53:31,974 [DOOR SHUTS] 625 00:53:36,347 --> 00:53:39,815 You were supposed to be playing my place last night. 626 00:53:40,518 --> 00:53:42,318 [GRUNTS] 627 00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:46,288 I heard you was playing down the street. Hmm? 628 00:53:46,290 --> 00:53:48,791 You fuck up my Thursday night business. 629 00:53:48,793 --> 00:53:50,459 Somebody be playing like me. 630 00:53:50,461 --> 00:53:53,162 Somebody be playing like me. 631 00:53:53,164 --> 00:53:56,465 You gonna give us the next three Thursdays 632 00:53:56,834 --> 00:53:58,634 for nothin'. Hmm? 633 00:53:59,971 --> 00:54:00,970 Gotta pay the band. 634 00:54:01,405 --> 00:54:02,338 [GRUNTS] 635 00:54:03,674 --> 00:54:06,141 BARTLEY: You out your motherfuckin' mind. 636 00:54:06,143 --> 00:54:08,277 You mess with that man's business, 637 00:54:08,279 --> 00:54:11,280 that means you messing with my business. 638 00:54:12,883 --> 00:54:14,283 [INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING] 639 00:54:14,285 --> 00:54:15,818 [INAUDIBLE] 640 00:54:19,657 --> 00:54:20,856 [WATER DRIPPING] 641 00:54:20,858 --> 00:54:22,858 WOMAN: Hey, Bartley, 642 00:54:22,859 --> 00:54:24,859 what you gonna do when you get Buddy's music in a tin can? 643 00:54:24,862 --> 00:54:26,328 BARTLEY: I'm gonna sell it. 644 00:54:26,330 --> 00:54:28,597 Who's gonna want to hear his music? 645 00:54:28,599 --> 00:54:32,334 And I got exclusive arrangements with a white man by then. 646 00:54:34,472 --> 00:54:37,273 [INHALES AND EXHALES] 647 00:54:37,275 --> 00:54:39,642 Baby, you're gonna be a family man now. 648 00:54:39,644 --> 00:54:42,544 You gonna have a child to provide for. 649 00:54:42,546 --> 00:54:46,015 You wanna play your horn instead of plastering walls, all right. 650 00:54:46,017 --> 00:54:48,350 But you gotta make it pay. 651 00:55:05,036 --> 00:55:06,535 Bartley... 652 00:55:06,537 --> 00:55:10,506 he need to put his music in that machine. 653 00:55:10,508 --> 00:55:12,274 BARTLEY: Don't worry, baby. 654 00:55:12,276 --> 00:55:13,676 We gonna get him. 655 00:55:14,612 --> 00:55:18,047 Sooner or later, we gonna get his music. 656 00:55:18,049 --> 00:55:19,815 [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING] 657 00:55:20,985 --> 00:55:22,318 [CORNET PLAYS] 658 00:55:22,853 --> 00:55:24,520 [JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING] 659 00:55:30,194 --> 00:55:32,261 MAN: [OVER RADIO] You're listening to Louis Armstrong... 660 00:55:32,263 --> 00:55:33,629 BOLDEN: [SHOUTS] Nora! 661 00:55:35,266 --> 00:55:37,866 NORA: I need to get married to you, Buddy. 662 00:55:40,304 --> 00:55:41,970 When you coming home? 663 00:55:45,443 --> 00:55:47,609 [THUNDER RUMBLES] 664 00:55:56,987 --> 00:55:58,620 [MELANCHOLY MUSIC PLAYING] 665 00:56:04,295 --> 00:56:06,362 [PLAYING BLACK AND BLUE] 666 00:56:13,537 --> 00:56:15,070 [PLAYING CORNET SOLO] 667 00:56:23,147 --> 00:56:24,446 Hey, baby. 668 00:56:51,208 --> 00:56:53,242 ¶ Cold empty bed 669 00:56:53,244 --> 00:56:55,544 ¶ Springs hard as lead 670 00:56:55,546 --> 00:56:57,880 ¶ Feel like Old Ned 671 00:56:57,882 --> 00:56:59,515 ¶ Wished I was dead 672 00:56:59,517 --> 00:57:02,151 ¶ All my life through 673 00:57:02,153 --> 00:57:06,588 ¶ I've been so black and blue 674 00:57:07,124 --> 00:57:08,457 ¶ Hmm, hmm 675 00:57:08,459 --> 00:57:09,992 -¶ Even the mouse -[THUNDER RUMBLING] 676 00:57:10,895 --> 00:57:13,695 ¶ Ran from my house 677 00:57:13,697 --> 00:57:17,065 ¶ They laughed at you and scorned you too 678 00:57:17,067 --> 00:57:19,334 ¶ What did I do, babe 679 00:57:19,336 --> 00:57:23,172 ¶ To be so black and blue? 680 00:57:25,176 --> 00:57:28,277 ¶ Mmm, I'm white 681 00:57:28,279 --> 00:57:30,412 ¶ Inside 682 00:57:30,414 --> 00:57:34,049 ¶ But that don't help my case 683 00:57:34,819 --> 00:57:36,819 ¶ 'Cause it 684 00:57:36,821 --> 00:57:39,354 ¶ Can't hide 685 00:57:39,356 --> 00:57:42,491 ¶ What is in my face 686 00:57:42,493 --> 00:57:45,994 [ARMSTRONG SCATTING] 687 00:57:47,598 --> 00:57:49,665 ¶ How would it end? 688 00:57:49,667 --> 00:57:52,067 ¶ Ain't got a friend 689 00:57:52,069 --> 00:57:55,671 ¶ My only sin is in my skin 690 00:57:55,673 --> 00:57:57,272 ¶ What did I do, babe 691 00:57:57,274 --> 00:57:58,207 Bartley! 692 00:57:58,209 --> 00:58:01,910 ¶ To be so black and blue? 693 00:58:02,847 --> 00:58:04,213 Bartley! 694 00:58:04,215 --> 00:58:05,981 [PLAYING CORNET SOLO] 695 00:58:12,289 --> 00:58:13,689 [MUSIC ENDS] 696 00:58:15,693 --> 00:58:16,859 Buddy! 697 00:58:16,861 --> 00:58:18,560 Buddy! Buddy! 698 00:58:18,996 --> 00:58:20,629 [BUDDY GAGS] 699 00:58:32,776 --> 00:58:34,042 Come on. 700 00:58:40,918 --> 00:58:43,218 That's what a motherfuckin' manager do. 701 00:58:46,891 --> 00:58:48,023 [THUNDER RUMBLES] 702 00:58:48,025 --> 00:58:49,291 [BUDDY BREATHING HOARSELY] 703 00:59:01,572 --> 00:59:03,071 [THUNDER RUMBLES] 704 00:59:05,709 --> 00:59:06,775 Aah! 705 00:59:06,777 --> 00:59:09,411 Stupid motherfuckin' whore. 706 00:59:09,413 --> 00:59:11,079 [BUDDY GROANING] 707 00:59:14,018 --> 00:59:15,284 Clean him up. 708 00:59:16,086 --> 00:59:18,253 [THUNDER RUMBLES] 709 00:59:19,156 --> 00:59:20,556 [RAIN PATTERING] 710 00:59:21,292 --> 00:59:25,160 [THUNDER RUMBLING] 711 00:59:58,095 --> 00:59:59,828 Ain't you somethin', 712 01:00:01,198 --> 01:00:02,831 King Bolden. 713 01:00:06,270 --> 01:00:08,070 You ain't come home to me. 714 01:00:12,376 --> 01:00:13,942 Don't do that to me. 715 01:00:20,284 --> 01:00:22,017 [SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING] 716 01:00:24,388 --> 01:00:26,021 [WATER DRIPPING] 717 01:00:27,958 --> 01:00:29,391 [CORNET PLAYING] 718 01:00:36,133 --> 01:00:39,067 [MAN SHOUTING] 719 01:00:46,543 --> 01:00:48,744 JOHNSON: Ain't nobody playin' what we playin'. 720 01:00:48,746 --> 01:00:50,879 Ain't nobody playin' what Buddy playin'. 721 01:00:51,615 --> 01:00:54,016 Nobody's splitting up. 722 01:00:54,018 --> 01:00:56,985 -And it just have a certain life. -[ALL CHATTERING] 723 01:01:03,794 --> 01:01:05,427 Buddy showed up like black Jesus. 724 01:01:05,429 --> 01:01:07,062 [LAUGHTER] 725 01:01:08,065 --> 01:01:10,165 So I guess that make us his disciples. 726 01:01:10,167 --> 01:01:11,166 [KNOCK ON DOOR] 727 01:01:12,803 --> 01:01:15,070 I'm looking for a Buddy Bolden. 728 01:01:15,539 --> 01:01:17,272 Well, shit, get in line. 729 01:01:17,274 --> 01:01:18,106 You the police? 730 01:01:18,108 --> 01:01:22,344 Uh, no, no. Uh, Bartley sent me. 731 01:01:22,346 --> 01:01:24,179 You don't play clarinet, do you? 732 01:01:24,181 --> 01:01:26,081 [CHUCKLES] No. 733 01:01:26,083 --> 01:01:27,649 No, he said that 734 01:01:27,651 --> 01:01:30,752 Bolden wanted to record his music. I can do this. 735 01:01:30,754 --> 01:01:32,587 It come out on a little tin can, huh? 736 01:01:32,589 --> 01:01:36,958 No. No, it comes out on a wax cylinder. 737 01:01:36,960 --> 01:01:38,894 Ah. I got... 738 01:01:41,665 --> 01:01:45,100 -"Oscar Zahn" -Mmm-mmm. Uh, Zahn. 739 01:01:45,602 --> 01:01:47,302 "Cylinder recorders." 740 01:01:48,539 --> 01:01:50,305 Buddy want to record our music. 741 01:01:52,609 --> 01:01:54,142 Let me see that. 742 01:01:57,781 --> 01:01:59,614 Buddy's scared people are gonna steal our music. 743 01:01:59,616 --> 01:02:01,883 Now he wanna put it on a machine? 744 01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:05,020 Make no sense to me. 745 01:02:05,956 --> 01:02:09,124 [PLAYING CORNET AND CLARINET] 746 01:02:16,400 --> 01:02:18,100 [PLAYING OFF-KEY] 747 01:02:25,142 --> 01:02:28,110 WARNER: Why you think the best paid clarinet man in New Orleans 748 01:02:28,112 --> 01:02:30,112 come to the pit to play with us? 749 01:02:31,682 --> 01:02:33,448 [INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING] 750 01:02:33,450 --> 01:02:35,183 So, uh... [CLEARS THROAT] 751 01:02:38,889 --> 01:02:40,455 It's pretty good. [CLEARS THROAT] 752 01:02:41,458 --> 01:02:42,958 Mmm-hmm. 753 01:02:45,429 --> 01:02:46,928 [SIGHS] 754 01:02:49,967 --> 01:02:53,335 We need to talk about exclusive arrangements, you and me. 755 01:02:57,641 --> 01:02:59,474 [PLAYING SLOW MUSIC] 756 01:03:13,957 --> 01:03:16,191 I'll put you in front of a white audience. 757 01:03:17,161 --> 01:03:18,326 [MEN CHEERING] 758 01:03:25,803 --> 01:03:27,869 You a sensation, Bolden. 759 01:03:28,505 --> 01:03:30,472 When people hear your music, 760 01:03:30,474 --> 01:03:34,142 they understand somethin' can hardly be put in words. 761 01:03:35,479 --> 01:03:37,112 [MUSIC CONTINUES] 762 01:03:38,182 --> 01:03:39,414 [INAUDIBLE] 763 01:03:44,521 --> 01:03:46,188 [PEOPLE CHEERING] 764 01:04:08,779 --> 01:04:11,346 [MUSIC CONTINUES] 765 01:04:11,348 --> 01:04:16,184 We need to talk about exclusive arrangements, you and me. 766 01:04:25,629 --> 01:04:27,462 [INDISTINCT CHATTER IN BACKGROUND] 767 01:04:37,040 --> 01:04:38,640 [VALVES CLATTERING] 768 01:04:50,520 --> 01:04:52,220 [SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING] 769 01:04:56,360 --> 01:04:58,093 [INMATES WAILING] 770 01:05:00,964 --> 01:05:04,199 Playing with George Baquet, good business. 771 01:05:08,872 --> 01:05:10,572 [WATER DRIPPING] 772 01:05:12,042 --> 01:05:14,910 Now how you gonna make a livin' without these, huh? 773 01:05:17,147 --> 01:05:20,115 You got a wife and child to provide for. 774 01:05:21,318 --> 01:05:22,384 If it is your child. 775 01:05:34,631 --> 01:05:36,498 NORA: You gonna get out of bed? 776 01:05:36,500 --> 01:05:40,402 Willie Cornish come by, gave me the buttons for your horn. 777 01:05:41,605 --> 01:05:43,338 Why you takin' them out? 778 01:05:48,545 --> 01:05:50,145 ALICE: I hear your daddy every time you play. 779 01:05:50,147 --> 01:05:52,547 I hear your daddy every time you play. 780 01:05:58,288 --> 01:06:00,655 Your daddy die young to give you strength. 781 01:06:11,001 --> 01:06:13,368 [WATER DRIPPING] 782 01:06:18,342 --> 01:06:19,841 [DOOR OPENS] 783 01:06:19,843 --> 01:06:22,243 [CREAKS SHUT] 784 01:06:26,984 --> 01:06:29,084 [HEAVY BREATHING] 785 01:06:41,431 --> 01:06:43,498 [NORA GRUNTING] 786 01:06:43,967 --> 01:06:46,501 [SCREAMING] 787 01:06:49,006 --> 01:06:50,638 [GROANING] 788 01:06:52,676 --> 01:06:54,442 [GRUNTING] 789 01:06:54,444 --> 01:06:56,511 [JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING] 790 01:07:04,021 --> 01:07:05,286 [SCREAMING] 791 01:07:16,633 --> 01:07:19,334 [CROWD CHEERING] 792 01:07:19,336 --> 01:07:22,103 BOLDEN: My daddy gave me the power of my lungs. 793 01:07:22,105 --> 01:07:24,439 That's how I play like I do. 794 01:07:25,675 --> 01:07:26,608 [SCREAMING] 795 01:07:27,611 --> 01:07:29,210 [CROWD SHOUTING] 796 01:07:38,955 --> 01:07:41,322 [CROWD SHOUTING] 797 01:07:42,492 --> 01:07:43,425 [MAN COUGHING] 798 01:07:43,427 --> 01:07:44,492 [SCREAMING] 799 01:07:54,004 --> 01:07:56,271 [BABY WAILING] 800 01:07:58,208 --> 01:08:01,209 ALICE: Your daddy was sacrificed for your gift. 801 01:08:01,211 --> 01:08:03,244 What gonna happen to your baby? 802 01:08:03,246 --> 01:08:05,380 You gonna lose your gift. 803 01:08:07,584 --> 01:08:09,651 Where are you now? Huh? 804 01:08:12,856 --> 01:08:14,522 [UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING] 805 01:08:24,701 --> 01:08:26,134 [MUSIC CONTINUES] 806 01:08:28,572 --> 01:08:29,804 Brothers and sisters... 807 01:08:29,806 --> 01:08:31,406 [MUSIC CONTINUES] 808 01:08:37,214 --> 01:08:40,448 ...I come to you today to talk about returning home. 809 01:08:40,450 --> 01:08:41,549 Back to Africa. 810 01:08:41,551 --> 01:08:42,817 [MUSIC CONTINUES] 811 01:08:46,156 --> 01:08:48,923 We will never be Americans. 812 01:08:48,925 --> 01:08:50,625 It's time to return home. 813 01:08:50,627 --> 01:08:51,893 [MUSIC CONTINUES] 814 01:08:51,895 --> 01:08:53,361 [CHEERING] 815 01:08:54,698 --> 01:08:57,499 -OFFICER: Now, let's go. -We have the right to a peaceful protest. 816 01:08:57,501 --> 01:08:59,334 [MUSIC CONTINUES] 817 01:09:10,514 --> 01:09:11,579 [GRUNTING] 818 01:09:30,867 --> 01:09:32,800 Get out! Get out! Go! 819 01:09:33,603 --> 01:09:34,903 [PLAYING BROKEN NOTES] 820 01:09:42,612 --> 01:09:43,845 [PLAYING HALTINGLY] 821 01:10:04,100 --> 01:10:06,401 You, come here! You don't move! 822 01:10:09,439 --> 01:10:11,239 -MAN: Hey. Hey. -Keep your hands off of me! 823 01:10:11,241 --> 01:10:12,240 [WOMEN SHRIEK] 824 01:10:12,242 --> 01:10:14,242 [INDISTINCT SHOUTING] 825 01:10:16,213 --> 01:10:18,179 [SHOUTING] 826 01:10:18,181 --> 01:10:20,348 MCMURPHY: This is all on Bartley. 827 01:10:20,350 --> 01:10:24,619 This here's your enterprising nigger's boy, Bolden. 828 01:10:24,621 --> 01:10:28,122 Caused a riot outside that dance hall he was playin' at. 829 01:10:28,124 --> 01:10:29,857 He's serious trouble. 830 01:10:31,261 --> 01:10:32,927 This is all on Bartley. 831 01:10:34,264 --> 01:10:36,097 [FOOTSTEPS ECHOING] 832 01:10:36,099 --> 01:10:37,699 JUDGE PERRY: Shut Bolden down? 833 01:10:37,701 --> 01:10:41,302 MCMURPHY: Shut him down. Just stop that boy playing. 834 01:10:41,304 --> 01:10:44,272 A bold nigger is dangerous. 835 01:10:44,274 --> 01:10:46,474 [BRASS BAND PLAYING] 836 01:10:59,322 --> 01:11:00,722 What you lookin' at? 837 01:11:14,638 --> 01:11:16,671 [CROWD WHISTLING] 838 01:11:20,810 --> 01:11:22,443 [BRASS BAND PLAYING] 839 01:11:33,857 --> 01:11:35,356 [CHEERING] 840 01:11:36,660 --> 01:11:38,593 [MUSIC FADING] 841 01:11:44,200 --> 01:11:45,466 [GROWLS] 842 01:11:48,138 --> 01:11:49,671 [PLAYING OFF TUNE] 843 01:11:59,049 --> 01:12:00,481 Come on. 844 01:12:00,483 --> 01:12:01,949 Get on out of here. 845 01:12:03,553 --> 01:12:05,720 Motherfucker! Get off of me! 846 01:12:05,722 --> 01:12:07,455 [BOLDEN SHOUTING] 847 01:12:09,359 --> 01:12:11,326 Cornish, where's Warner? 848 01:12:15,932 --> 01:12:18,132 BOLDEN: You made all your crowd crazy, caused a riot. 849 01:12:18,134 --> 01:12:20,101 You will stop playing your goddamn horn. 850 01:12:20,103 --> 01:12:22,937 That's what the motherfuckers want. That's what you'll do. 851 01:12:28,178 --> 01:12:29,877 [HISSING] 852 01:12:30,714 --> 01:12:32,513 [SCREAMING] 853 01:12:34,117 --> 01:12:35,850 What we gonna do here? 854 01:12:43,760 --> 01:12:45,259 MAN: What's wrong with the man? 855 01:12:45,261 --> 01:12:46,894 CORNISH: He gone lost his mind. 856 01:12:47,464 --> 01:12:48,996 Look, he ain't no Bolden, 857 01:12:48,998 --> 01:12:51,999 but we can always get Bunk Johnson to play with us all. 858 01:12:52,001 --> 01:12:53,368 [BIRDS TWITTERING] 859 01:12:55,038 --> 01:12:56,537 NORA: Ain't you got work? 860 01:12:58,241 --> 01:12:59,807 You gonna get out of bed? 861 01:13:17,894 --> 01:13:19,560 [CORNET PLAYING FAINTLY] 862 01:13:42,051 --> 01:13:44,118 [WALTZ MUSIC PLAYING] 863 01:14:31,968 --> 01:14:33,835 [INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING] 864 01:14:37,307 --> 01:14:40,241 No. No, no. Leave me! 865 01:14:41,778 --> 01:14:43,044 [BOTH GRUNT] 866 01:14:52,088 --> 01:14:53,721 [INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING] 867 01:14:58,228 --> 01:14:59,694 [MUSIC PLAYING FAINTLY] 868 01:15:26,956 --> 01:15:28,689 [JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING] 869 01:15:54,884 --> 01:15:56,651 [SHOUTING] 870 01:16:01,190 --> 01:16:02,757 [MUSIC FADES] 871 01:16:26,215 --> 01:16:27,982 [MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING] 872 01:16:28,284 --> 01:16:29,951 [CHEERING] 873 01:16:32,655 --> 01:16:33,955 [CROWD EXCLAIMS] 874 01:16:51,641 --> 01:16:53,274 Horns up, motherfuckers. 875 01:17:11,127 --> 01:17:12,360 [WATER DRIPPING] 876 01:17:26,809 --> 01:17:28,275 [SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING] 877 01:17:32,382 --> 01:17:33,814 JUDGE PERRY: Ambition... 878 01:17:35,518 --> 01:17:37,284 born of vanity. 879 01:17:40,623 --> 01:17:43,157 This is America, Bolden. 880 01:17:43,159 --> 01:17:45,760 How far you think you're gonna get? 881 01:17:47,764 --> 01:17:49,864 Destroy the nigger's soul, 882 01:17:49,866 --> 01:17:53,234 and they will destroy each other. 883 01:17:55,405 --> 01:17:58,072 [CROWD CLAMORING] 884 01:18:16,626 --> 01:18:17,892 Turn around. 885 01:18:27,103 --> 01:18:28,936 Number 9 to win. 886 01:18:41,050 --> 01:18:42,717 Your valves are right here. 887 01:18:42,952 --> 01:18:44,218 You fine. 888 01:18:46,122 --> 01:18:48,956 [TRAIN HORN BLOWS] 889 01:18:52,228 --> 01:18:53,461 I'm leaving you, Buddy. 890 01:18:54,931 --> 01:18:57,465 Mr. Warner gonna take us up to Chicago. 891 01:18:59,535 --> 01:19:01,302 I'mma help them settle up there. 892 01:19:02,672 --> 01:19:04,805 Can see if I can get some work. 893 01:19:05,708 --> 01:19:07,608 Maybe in one of the stockyards. 894 01:19:07,610 --> 01:19:08,876 [CROWD CHEERING] 895 01:19:17,587 --> 01:19:19,520 [SLOW JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING] 896 01:19:23,226 --> 01:19:30,464 ¶ Well, I though I heard Buddy Bolden call 897 01:19:31,901 --> 01:19:38,072 ¶ We started in the summer we didn't end till fall 898 01:19:38,741 --> 01:19:41,275 ¶ You walk in my room 899 01:19:41,277 --> 01:19:45,946 ¶ But when you leave, you will crawl 900 01:19:45,948 --> 01:19:51,819 ¶ Oh, that's what Mr. Bolden called... 901 01:20:11,507 --> 01:20:13,340 [MUSIC FADING] 902 01:20:40,803 --> 01:20:43,871 [MUSIC PLAYING FAINTLY] 903 01:20:45,541 --> 01:20:47,308 [CHEERING] 904 01:20:48,411 --> 01:20:50,911 [MAN CONTINUES SINGING] 905 01:20:53,649 --> 01:20:55,382 BARTLEY: Are you ready? 906 01:20:55,852 --> 01:20:57,718 Are you ready? 907 01:20:57,720 --> 01:20:59,687 [CROWD CHEERING] 908 01:20:59,689 --> 01:21:02,656 JUDGE PERRY: Destroy men's souls 909 01:21:02,658 --> 01:21:05,726 and they will destroy each other. 910 01:21:05,728 --> 01:21:08,295 BARTLEY: The best boxers in the world 911 01:21:08,297 --> 01:21:09,830 in the ring of fire! 912 01:21:09,832 --> 01:21:11,332 [CHEERING] 913 01:21:13,236 --> 01:21:14,902 ¶ Yeah 914 01:21:15,504 --> 01:21:18,072 ¶ And then take it away 915 01:21:20,076 --> 01:21:23,611 ¶ I thought I heard him say 916 01:21:26,182 --> 01:21:29,483 No, Bolden. Step back, man. 917 01:21:29,485 --> 01:21:32,286 ¶ ...Buddy Bolden repeat 918 01:21:33,823 --> 01:21:39,927 ¶ I can play it hot or I can play it sweet 919 01:21:41,764 --> 01:21:43,898 -BOLDEN: I'm going... -You ain't going in! 920 01:21:43,900 --> 01:21:45,332 -Get out of here. -That's my song! 921 01:21:45,334 --> 01:21:47,401 [CONTINUES SHOUTING] 922 01:21:49,505 --> 01:21:53,974 ¶ That's what I heard Buddy Bolden repeat ¶ 923 01:21:56,946 --> 01:21:58,679 [CONTINUE SHOUTING] 924 01:22:25,207 --> 01:22:26,307 [GRUNTS] 925 01:22:30,780 --> 01:22:32,980 [INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING] 926 01:22:32,982 --> 01:22:34,682 [LOOMS WHIRRING] 927 01:22:44,593 --> 01:22:45,726 [WHEEZES] 928 01:22:45,728 --> 01:22:47,328 [LOOMS WHIRRING] 929 01:23:07,416 --> 01:23:08,615 That one there. 930 01:23:09,485 --> 01:23:11,185 [SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING] 931 01:23:18,627 --> 01:23:20,594 [CROWD SHOUTING] 932 01:23:36,245 --> 01:23:37,211 [GRUNTS] 933 01:23:49,692 --> 01:23:51,025 [GASPING] 934 01:23:57,033 --> 01:23:58,499 [FAINT SHOUTING] 935 01:24:07,576 --> 01:24:09,576 [WHEEZING] 936 01:24:10,279 --> 01:24:11,478 [CHEERING] 937 01:24:11,480 --> 01:24:13,147 Get up! Get up! 938 01:24:13,149 --> 01:24:15,082 Get your black ass up! 939 01:24:15,084 --> 01:24:16,817 -Get up! -Bartley! 940 01:24:17,553 --> 01:24:18,952 You look at me, Bartley! 941 01:24:18,954 --> 01:24:21,355 You lost! You lost on our deal! 942 01:24:23,392 --> 01:24:24,725 Bartley! 943 01:25:04,366 --> 01:25:05,732 [CHUCKLES] 944 01:25:07,303 --> 01:25:09,703 You're gonna stop killing us. 945 01:25:11,440 --> 01:25:13,107 BARTLEY: It ain't me, baby. 946 01:25:14,110 --> 01:25:15,843 It ain't me. 947 01:25:22,518 --> 01:25:23,717 [PEN SCRATCHING] 948 01:25:41,237 --> 01:25:43,303 [BARTLEY GAGGING] 949 01:25:43,973 --> 01:25:44,905 [GASPS] 950 01:26:05,861 --> 01:26:07,694 You have no past. 951 01:26:08,931 --> 01:26:10,631 No history. 952 01:26:12,134 --> 01:26:13,600 No culture. 953 01:26:15,704 --> 01:26:18,038 You come from nothing. 954 01:26:18,040 --> 01:26:19,873 I come from the same place as you. 955 01:26:21,610 --> 01:26:23,644 There is nothing 956 01:26:23,646 --> 01:26:25,445 the same for you and me. 957 01:26:25,447 --> 01:26:27,781 And that ain't never gonna change. 958 01:26:30,186 --> 01:26:32,286 You come from nothing, raise your head, 959 01:26:32,288 --> 01:26:34,621 get people to gather like you're some kind of... 960 01:26:37,026 --> 01:26:39,726 You think we're gonna let that happen? 961 01:26:39,728 --> 01:26:40,994 Hmm? 962 01:26:40,996 --> 01:26:44,331 Let you incite a godless crowd? 963 01:26:44,333 --> 01:26:46,600 You don't like what I played on this? 964 01:26:49,872 --> 01:26:51,905 No one ever will. 965 01:26:51,907 --> 01:26:53,407 [INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING] 966 01:27:02,251 --> 01:27:04,651 Power that is not righteous 967 01:27:05,221 --> 01:27:07,321 must be destroyed. 968 01:27:37,786 --> 01:27:39,753 [BOLDEN SCREAMING] 969 01:27:44,126 --> 01:27:45,626 [KEYS JINGLE] 970 01:27:46,061 --> 01:27:47,928 [FOOTSTEPS RECEDING] 971 01:27:50,566 --> 01:27:52,833 Oh, thank you, folks. Thank you, folks. 972 01:27:52,835 --> 01:27:54,434 Thank you, thank you. 973 01:27:55,137 --> 01:27:57,437 Thank you, folks. Thank you, folks. 974 01:27:57,439 --> 01:27:58,839 So good to be back home. 975 01:27:58,841 --> 01:28:00,841 You know, when I was a little boy wearing short pants, 976 01:28:00,843 --> 01:28:03,577 I lived with my sister and my mama in the back of town. 977 01:28:03,579 --> 01:28:06,280 Yeah. Yeah, that was my neighborhood. 978 01:28:06,282 --> 01:28:09,383 [BOLDEN SHOUTING] 979 01:28:09,385 --> 01:28:11,952 I was delivering coal to the district. 980 01:28:11,954 --> 01:28:13,553 [CROWD EXCLAIM] 981 01:28:13,555 --> 01:28:16,723 Boy, yeah, they don't talk about a district no more, now, do they? 982 01:28:16,725 --> 01:28:18,659 [LAUGHS] 983 01:28:18,661 --> 01:28:21,828 Yeah. Yeah, I think I remember seeing you there, Jackson, yeah. 984 01:28:21,830 --> 01:28:23,930 You had a big hat on though covering your face. 985 01:28:24,967 --> 01:28:26,767 [BOLDEN SHOUTING] 986 01:28:26,769 --> 01:28:30,370 Anyway, this one morning, I was rolling through that particular neighborhood, 987 01:28:30,372 --> 01:28:33,407 and I heard a sound that I never heard before. 988 01:28:33,409 --> 01:28:34,875 I thought, "Man..." 989 01:28:34,877 --> 01:28:36,510 [BOLDEN SHOUTING] 990 01:28:37,846 --> 01:28:39,680 And, folks, I wanna tell you something. 991 01:28:39,682 --> 01:28:42,349 He was playing the saddest tune anyone hear. 992 01:28:42,351 --> 01:28:44,217 Oh. Mmm-mmm. 993 01:28:44,219 --> 01:28:45,686 I looked at him, I said, "Mister." 994 01:28:45,688 --> 01:28:48,088 I said, "Mister." 995 01:28:48,089 --> 01:28:50,489 I said, "Why you playing so sad, why you playing so sad a tune?" 996 01:28:52,795 --> 01:28:54,027 And he looked at me and he said, 997 01:28:55,097 --> 01:28:56,830 he said, "Son, 998 01:28:56,832 --> 01:28:59,366 "today they took away the king. They took away the king." 999 01:29:01,970 --> 01:29:03,070 [DOOR OPENS] 1000 01:29:15,451 --> 01:29:17,184 I said, "The king?" 1001 01:29:17,186 --> 01:29:18,618 I was just a little boy, you know. 1002 01:29:18,620 --> 01:29:20,253 "The king?" I said, "Who's the king?" 1003 01:29:20,255 --> 01:29:21,588 He said, "'Who's the king?'" 1004 01:29:21,590 --> 01:29:25,225 "Buddy Bolden." He said, "King Buddy Bolden." 1005 01:29:25,227 --> 01:29:27,127 That's what he told me. 1006 01:29:27,129 --> 01:29:29,463 [AUDIENCE CHEERING] 1007 01:29:29,465 --> 01:29:32,232 So this one's gonna go out to King Buddy Bolden, 1008 01:29:32,234 --> 01:29:34,501 the first king of New Orleans music. 1009 01:29:36,171 --> 01:29:38,105 [JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING] 1010 01:30:35,364 --> 01:30:37,431 ¶ 1011 01:31:35,424 --> 01:31:37,491 ¶ 1012 01:32:18,934 --> 01:32:20,867 [MUSIC ENDS] 1013 01:32:47,262 --> 01:32:49,329 [JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING]