Around 1900, a man named Buddy Bolden changed American music forever... and left almost nothing behind.

He played louder, faster, freer than anyone else in New Orleans. People said his cornet could make the air itself dance. But no one alive has ever heard him.

His only rumored recording—a wax cylinder—vanished into history.

Norman Woolworth’s new novel, The Bolden Cylinder, dives into that mystery: what if someone found it?

Equal parts history, obsession, and the haunting echo of jazz’s first note. 🎧 Would you listen?

💬 Tell me— if you could recover one lost piece of history (art, music, jewelry, anything!), what would it be? (If you couldn't tell, I may or may not have the Louvre heist on my mind 👀)

Thanks to Get Red PR Books for the gifted copy!

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