Today's playlist. This 15th installment features "KID ORY".
I bought it at Flash Disc Ranch, my favorite record store in Shimokitazawa.
This is a record store I've been going to ever since I first moved to Setagaya. It's popular because of its amazing point card system, which is valid as long as the store is open. Once you collect 50 stamps, you can buy any number of records under 15,000 yen for half price.
Edward "Kid" Ory (December 25, 1886 – January 23, 1973) was a jazz trombonist and bandleader. He was born on Woodland Plantation near LaPlace, Louisiana.
Ollie began playing music with homemade instruments from a young age, and by the time he was a teenager, he was leading a proper band in southeastern Louisiana. Due to family circumstances, he was based in LaPlace until his 21st birthday, after which he moved his band to New Orleans, Louisiana.
Ollie had a particularly famous band in New Orleans in the 1910s and employed many of New Orleans' great jazz musicians, including Joe "King" Oliver, Mutt Carey, Louis Armstrong, and clarinetists Johnny Dodds and Jimmy Noon.
In 1919, Ollie moved to Los Angeles, and like many New Orleans musicians, he recorded with his own band there in 1922. This band included Matt Carey, clarinetist and pianist Dink Johnson, and double bassist Ed Garland. Garland and Carey were longtime collaborators and continued to play with Ollie until his return in the 1940s. In 1925, Ollie moved to Chicago, where he was extremely active, collaborating and recording with Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Johnny Dodds, and many others.
During the Great Depression, Ollie retired from music in 1933 and did not play again until 1943. From 1944 to around 1961, he led one of the most prominent New Orleans-style bands of that era. Matt Carey, Ed Garland, trumpeters Alvin Alcorn and Teddy Buckner were also members, as were clarinetists Darnell Howard, Jimmy Noon, Albert Nicholas, Bernie Bigard, George Probert, and pianists Buster Wilson, Cedric Haywood, and Don Ewell, and drummer Minor Hall, who played in Ollie's band during this period.
Ollie's band rekindled interest in New Orleans jazz and influenced not only recordings but also the production of popular radio programs (including broadcasts of Orson Welles' "Almanac" and a jazz history series sponsored by Standard Oil).
Ollie was also the composer of "Muskrat Rumble," "Olly's Creole Trombone," and "Savoy Blues." He retired from music in 1966 and spent his later years in Hawaii, where he passed away in Honolulu.
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I've also created a playlist on Spotify, so please feel free to listen to it in the car on your way to a camping trip.
