Editing Buddy Bolden (section)

==Physical and mental decline==

Bolden had an episode of acute alcoholic [[psychosis]] in 1907 at age 30. With the full diagnosis of [[dementia praecox]] (today called [[schizophrenia]]), he was admitted to the [[East Louisiana State Hospital|Louisiana State Insane Asylum]] at Jackson, a [[mental institution]], where he spent the rest of his life.<ref name= barlow>Barlow, William. ''"Looking Up At Down": The Emergence of Blues Culture''. Temple University Press (1989), pp. 188–191. {{ISBN|0-87722-583-4}}.</ref><ref name="npr">{{cite news |title=Two Films Unveil a Lost Jazz Legend |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17260407 |quote=By most accounts, a mix of alcohol and mental illness sent Bolden into an asylum in 1907; he stayed there until his death in 1931. |publisher=[[National Public Radio]] |date=December 15, 2007 |access-date=2008-04-14 }}</ref> Recent research has suggested that Bolden may in fact have had [[pellagra]], a vitamin deficiency common among poor and black groups in the population, which in 1907 swept through the southern United States.<ref>Karst, James. 2020. [https://64parishes.org/buddy-boldens-blues 'Buddy Bolden's blues: did a simple vitamin deficiency cause the jazz pioneer's mental illness?'] ''64 Parishes''.</ref> In his essay 'Jazz and disability', George McKay positions Bolden (alongside disabled European guitarist [[Django Reinhardt]]) as a pivotal figure in this new music's inclusive capacity: 'Apparently from an edge, the edge of sound mental health or a normal life itself, Buddy Bolden seems to have had a mind that let him hear and create a new music.... [His] tantalizing as well as desperate story,
his achievements and influence, which are shrouded in silence, is also one of cognitive impairment
at the heart of the jazz tradition.'<ref>McKay, George. 2019. '[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330194054_Jazz_and_Disability Jazz and Disability].' In Nicholas Gebhardt et al, eds. ''The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies''. London: Taylor and Francis, p. 178.</ref> Bolden's death on November 4, 1931, was caused by cerebral [[arteriosclerosis]] according to the death certificate.<ref>"Louisiana, Orleans Parish Death Records and Certificates, 1835-1954", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ZNTN-3XMM : 27 May 2020), Charles Bolden, 1931. The death certificate is filed at the Louisiana State Archive and Research Library, in Statewide Deaths for [[East Feliciana Parish]], 1931, Vol. 32, Pg. 13491.</ref>