Kid Ory

Ory was a banjo player during his youth and it is said that
his ability to play the banjo helped him develop tailgate,
a particular style of playing the trombone. In tailgate
style the trombone plays a rhythmic line underneath the
trumpets and cornets.
While Ory was living on Jackson Avenue, he was discovered by Buddy Bolden, playing his rst New trombone,
instead of the old civil war trombone. But his sister said
he was too young to play with Bolden.
Ory had one of the best-known bands in New Orleans in
the 1910s, hiring many of the great jazz musicians of the
city, including cornetists Joe King Oliver, Mutt Carey,
House on Jackson Avenue, New Orleans, Orys residence
and Louis Armstrong, who joined the band in 1919;[1]
in the 1910s
and clarinetists Johnny Dodds and Jimmie Noone.
In 1919 he moved to Los Angeles[2] one of a number
of New Orleans musicians to do so near that timeand
he recorded there in 1921 with a band that included Mutt
Carey, clarinetist and pianist Dink Johnson, and string
bassist Ed Garland. Garland and Carey were longtime
associates who would still be playing with Ory during his
1940s comeback. While in Los Angeles Ory and his band
recorded two instrumentals, "Orys Creole Trombone"
and Society Blues, as well as a number of songs. They
were the rst jazz recordings made on the west coast by
an African-American jazz band from New Orleans. His
band recorded with the recording company Nordskog and
Ory paid them for the pressings and then sold them under his own label of Kid Orys Sunshine Orchestra at a
store in Los Angeles called Spikes Brothers Music Store.
In 1925, Ory moved to Chicago, where he was very acNesuhi Ertegun founded his rst label, Crescent Records,
tive, working and recording with Louis Armstrong, Jelly
for the express purpose of recording Kid Orys Creole
Roll Morton, Oliver, Johnny Dodds, Bessie Smith, Ma
Jazz Band (Crescent Number 1, August 1944)
Rainey, and many others. He mentored Benny Goodman,
and later Charles Mingus.
Edward "Kid" Ory (December 25, 1886 January 23,
During the Great Depression Ory retired from music
1973) was a jazz trombonist and bandleader. He was born
and did not play again until 1943. From 1944 to about
in Woodland Plantation near La Place, Louisiana.
1961 he led one of the top New Orleans style bands
of the period. In addition to Mutt Carey and Ed Garland, trumpeters Alvin Alcorn and Teddy Buckner; clarinetists Darnell Howard, Jimmie Noone, Albert Nicholas,
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Barney Bigard, and George Probert; pianists Buster Wilson, Cedric Haywood, and Don Ewell; and drummer
Ory started playing music with home-made instruments Minor Hall were among his sidemen during this period.
in his childhood, and by his teens was leading a well- All but Probert, Buckner, and Ewell were originally from
regarded band in Southeast Louisiana. He kept La Place, New Orleans.
Louisiana, as his base of operations due to family obligaThe Ory band was an important force in reviving intions until his twenty-rst birthday, when he moved his
terest in New Orleans jazz, making popular 1940s raband to New Orleans, Louisiana. He was one of the most
dio broadcastsamong them a number of slots on The
inuential trombonists of early jazz.
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Orson Welles Almanac program (beginning March 15,

1944).[3][4][5] In 194445 the group made a series of
recordings on the Crescent Records label, founded by
Nesuhi Ertegun for the express purpose of recording
Orys band.[6]
During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Ory and his group
appeared at the Beverly Cavern in Los Angeles.
Ory retired from music in 1966 and spent his last years in
Hawaii, with the assistance of Trummy Young. Ory died
in Honolulu.[2] He was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in
Culver City, California.

References

[1] Jazz Greats of the 1920s University of Minnesota Duluth. Retrieved 11 June 2013.
[2] Kid Ory, 'tailgate' trombonist & composer. African
American Registry. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
[3] Radio Almanac. RadioGOLDINdex. Retrieved 201402-09.
[4] Orson Welles AlmanacPart 1. Internet Archive. Retrieved 2014-02-09.
[5] Orson Welles AlmanacPart 2. Internet Archive. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
[6] Ertegun, Nesuhi. Liner notes for Kid Orys Creole Jazz
Band. Good Time Jazz Records L-10 and L-11, 1953,
also used for Good Time Jazz Records L-12022, 1957.

Sources
Marcus, Kenneth. Musical Metropolis: Los Angeles
and the Creation of Music Culture 1880-1940

External links
Kid Ory on redhotjazz.com
Jubilee (Armed Forces Radio Network) at the Internet Archive; program #250 recorded between July
and September 1947 includes Kid Orys Creole Jazz
Band performing "Muskrat Ramble" (7:0510:30)
1944 Orson Welles Broadcasts at The Kid Ory
Archive
1945 Jade Palace at The Kid Ory Archive
Kid Orys Creole Jazz Band: 19441945 The Legendary Crescent Recording Sessions at AllMusic
(Scott Yanow)

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