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[WIND WHISTLING]
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[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
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[ECHOING]
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[INDISTINCT WAILING]
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[SQUEAKING]
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[MAN GRUNTING]
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[KEYS JINGLING]
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[BREATHING DEEPLY]
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[INMATES WAILING]
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[WATER DRIPPING]
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[RADIO CLICKS ON]
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[RADIO TUNING]
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MAN: [OVER RADIO]
This is WSNB Radio
New Orleans
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live broadcasting
from the beautiful
Suburban Gardens here,
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where our special guest
this evening,
Mr. Louis Armstrong,
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is back in New Orleans
after ten long years.
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He's come back here
a big, big star.
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[INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO]
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...on WSNB Radio
New Orleans.
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And our next broadcast
is brought to you by,
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uh, Royal Crown Hair Cream.
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That's right.
Your hair'll be curling...
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[INDISTINCT CHATTER
AND LAUGHTER]
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What a crowd here...
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Yes, sir.
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Our station manager
handed me a paper here
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that says to his recollection,
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this will be the first time
a colored boy will be
on the radio in New Orleans.
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All right, so we see
they're dimming
the lights here,
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and, uh, our MC
is approaching the microphone
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to begin
this evening's broadcast.
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I ain't announcing
no nigger man on the radio.
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[FEEDBACK OVER SPEAKERS]
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[FEEDBACK STOPS]
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[CLEARS THROAT]
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Good evening,
ladies and gentlemen.
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I'm Mr. Armstrong.
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[AUDIENCE CHEERING]
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[WHISTLING]
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[LAUGHING]
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Hello. You like that?
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I said we back home,
we back home.
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[INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO]
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Thank you, folks.
Thank you, folks.
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Thank you, folks.
Look out here, folks.
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Now, this goes out to
all you lovely people in here
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and all my beautiful
brothers and sisters
outside on the levee.
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[CHEERING OVER RADIO]
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The first I'm going
to play for you
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is You Rascal You.
You Rascal You.
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Look out here, fellas,
look out.
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You ready?
Here we go. One...
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[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO]
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[PLAYING JAZZ MUSIC]
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[MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO]
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¶ Boy, you know one thing?
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¶ I'll sure be glad
when you're dead
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[ARMSTRONG CONTINUES
CHATTERING OVER RADIO]
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¶ Laughin' and grinnin'
in my face
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¶ You're trying to be
in the back with my wife,
you old dog
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[LAUGHS]
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[SCRAPING]
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[ARMSTRONG CONTINUES
SINGING OVER RADIO]
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¶ I'll be glad when you're dead
you rascal, you
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[PLAYING CORNET]
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[INMATES SHOUTING]
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¶ I'll be glad when you're dead
you rascal you
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[OVER RADIO]
¶ I'll be glad when you're dead
you rascal you
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¶ When you're layin'
six feet deep
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¶ No more fried chicken
will you eat
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¶ You ain't no good,
you rascal you ¶
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[MUSIC CONTINUES OVER RADIO]
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[MUSIC CONTINUES]
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[CHEERING]
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[ARMSTRONG LAUGHING OVER RADIO]
Thank you, thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you, folks.
Thank you, folks.
Thank you, thank you.
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[ARMSTRONG SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY
OVER RADIO]
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[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
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MAN: [OVER RADIO]
Ladies and gentlemen,
listen to the crowd
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welcoming home
the wonderful Louis Armstrong
in New Orleans.
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[INDISTINCT CHATTER
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MAN: This here is my sister,
Miss Nora Bass.
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Nora, this is
Mr. Charles Bolden.
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He live on First Street.
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Maybe you should
invite Mr. Bolden
to Sunday service with us.
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Nora.
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You don't seem like
much a church-going man,
Mr. Bolden.
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Mama and me, we go to...
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Mama and me, we go
to First Street Baptist.
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Mama.
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This is
Mr. Charles Bolden.
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This is my mama,
Mrs. Ida Bass.
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How do you do,
Mrs. Ida...
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How do you make
your livin', Mr. Bolden?
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I make the church music better.
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[GIGGLING]
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I make the church music better.
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[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING]
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[PEOPLE CHATTERING]
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[MAN SHOUTS]
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[SCREAMING]
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[GRUNTS]
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[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
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[MEN SHOUTING]
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BOLDEN: So what do a manager do?
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BARTLEY: What do a manager do?
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Oh.
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I take care of the business
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while you take care
of your music.
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Your music got power.
I hear it.
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I seen what it do
to folks.
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-Take power like you got...
-[SNAPS]
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...combine it with
a business purpose,
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that's what a manager do.
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[SLURPING]
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You a sensation, Bolden.
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You play horn louder
than the day's long,
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even in the hot sun.
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You got women
dropping to your feet,
hoping to carry your horn.
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The day you was born,
you was kissed on the lips
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with something only you got,
ain't nobody else got it.
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Folks hear your music,
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they understand something
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can't hardly put to words.
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[HORSE CARRIAGE APPROACHING]
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And I know how to sell
what you got.
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And you...
[LAUGHS]
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...you better listen to me.
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Mmm-hmm.
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How the band supposed
to make more money
if we gotta pay you?
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I put you in front
of a white audience.
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[RUFFLING]
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Jesus Christ, Bartley.
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Yeah.
[LAUGHS]
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You ever done this?
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I got to fly
the balloon.
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[RAGTIME MUSIC PLAYING]
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[LAUGHTER]
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[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
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MAN: Boy, they don't
like this one bit, huh?
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[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
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How long before
we gotta start this...
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-Oh, no,
I'll be damned.
-Oh, yeah.
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Oh, no. Buddy.
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Bartley, I don't think
this is a good idea.
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Oh, you'll be all right.
You'll be great.
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I won't fall?
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Come on,
you got to go now.
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Yeah?
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Why the fuck
am I doing this?
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All right.
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I... Tell me...
Tell me when to jump.
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[SCREAMING]
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Play it loud!
[LAUGHS]
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-Stop the cart.
Stop the cart.
-Whoa, whoa.
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[RAGTIME MUSIC
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[SCREAMING]
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[GRUNTS]
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Oh.
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[PLAYING CORNET]
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[BAND STOPS PLAYING]
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[BRANCHES SNAPPING]
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[BOLDEN EXCLAIMS]
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[RAGTIME MUSIC RESUMES]
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[CORNET PLAYING]
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[CROWD SHOUTING]
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Thanks for the crowd.
[LAUGHS]
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[DRUMS PLAYING]
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Whoo!
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BAND: Hey, Buddy Bolden!
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[RAGTIME MUSIC CONTINUES]
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MAN: Whoo!
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[BANDS CLASHING]
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Stop.
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[CHEERING]
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[ARMSTRONG CHATTERING
OVER RADIO]
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ARMSTRONG: Thank you,
ladies and gentlemen,
thank you.
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I see that we have someone
who can't not be here today.
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Right over there.
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You know, folks,
they helped me
get my very first cornet.
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Yes, they did.
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I was just a little boy
back then.
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[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING]
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[ARMSTRONG CHATTERING]
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¶ Oh, that's it right there
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¶ Every night
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¶ You'll hear her croon
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¶ A Russian lullaby
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¶ Oh, just
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¶ Just a little plaintive tune
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¶ When baby starts to cry
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[ARMSTRONG SCATTING]
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¶ Rock-a-bye, my baby... ¶
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[LOOM SQUEAKING]
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[WHEELS SQUEAKING]
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[ARMSTRONG CHATTERING
OVER RADIO]
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You all right
down here, Buddy?
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[LOOMS WHIRRING]
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[SEWING MACHINE CLICKING]
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[HISSING]
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[THUMP]
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[HISSING]
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-[CLACKS]
-[HISSING]
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[SOUNDS COMBINING IN RHYTHM]
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[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING]
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[MUSIC FADES]
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[MACHINE WHIRRING]
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MAN: [OVER RADIO]
...Radio broadcasting live
from Suburban Gardens
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in New Orleans.
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[CONTINUES CHATTERING]
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[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING]
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MAN: Evening, Bolden.
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As an officer
of the court,
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I am duty-bound to
make a periodic assessment
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of the conditions in our
state prisons and asylums.
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As presiding judge
of the Criminal Court
or Orleans parish,
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I am the final arbiter
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of your life and liberty.
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I'm here
because you're here.
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"Servants...
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"be obedient to them
that are your masters.
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"according to the flesh,
with fear and trembling..."
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That's the way the world
moves on, Bolden.
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Hate your oppressors
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and you'll be enslaved
forever by your memories.
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[GRUNTING]
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-[BOYS SHOUTING]
-BARTLEY: Hey!
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Hey!
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Kid, you gotta put 'em up
or you gonna get hit.
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All right, you two.
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Go on. Come on.
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[BOYS CHEERING]
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[INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
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-[GRUNTING]
-What'd I tell you?
What'd I tell you?
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Come on now,
come on!
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[GRUNTING]
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[METAL CLANGING]
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[CORNET ECHOING]
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[MATCHSTICK FLARING]
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[SLOW JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING]
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[MUSIC FADES]
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BOLDEN: Come on down
and see me play tonight.
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NORA: And leave Mama
all alone?
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No. Bring her with.
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She can dance
like we do in church.
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-What?
-I know she can.
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[MUSIC RESUMES]
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[CORNET PLAYING]
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[GASPS]
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Hold this.
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[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]