Level: 3
Tuning: Standard

This blues is named after the cornetist of the first known jazz band, Buddy Bolden. The chord progression of the main theme has been used by other composers of that era. For instance Barney and Seymore's St Louis Tickle is one rag with this progression that was arranged for guitar by Dave van Ronk.

Buddy Bolden Blues is basically a one theme song with variations. It is not a regular 12 bar three chord, blues, it's more in line with the ragtime/jazz chord structure of the early jazz times. It's in the key of C.