Today's playlist, the 15th one, features "KID ORY."
I bought this at Flash Disc Ranch, my regular record store in Shimokitazawa.
This is a record store I've been frequenting since shortly after I started living in Setagaya. They have a popular and incredible system where if you collect 50 stamps on their point card, which is valid as long as the store exists, you get half off any records under 15,000 yen.
Edward "Kid" Ory (December 25, 1886 – January 23, 1973) was a jazz trombonist and bandleader. He was born at Woodland Plantation near LaPlace, Louisiana.
Ory began playing music on homemade instruments as a child and led a proper band in southeast Louisiana by his teenage years. Due to family circumstances, he remained based in LaPlace until his 21st birthday, after which he moved his band to New Orleans, Louisiana.
Ory had a particularly famous band in New Orleans in the 1910s and employed many great New Orleans jazz musicians. These included Joe "King" Oliver, Mutt Carey, Louis Armstrong, and clarinetists Johnny Dodds and Jimmie Noone.
In 1919, he moved to Los Angeles, as many New Orleans musicians did, and in 1922, he made recordings there with his own band. That band included Mutt Carey, clarinetist and pianist Dink Johnson, and double bassist Ed Garland. Garland and Carey were long-time companions and remained willing to play with Ory even during his hiatus until his comeback in the 1940s. In 1925, Ory moved to Chicago, where he was very active, playing and recording with Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Johnny Dodds, and many others.
During the Great Depression, Ory retired from music in 1933 and did not play again until 1943. From 1944 until about 1961, he led one of the particularly outstanding New Orleans-style bands of that era. Mutt Carey, Ed Garland, trumpeters Alvin Alcorn and Teddy Buckner were also members, and clarinetists Darnell Howard, Jimmie Noone, Albert Nicholas, Barney Bigard, George Probert, and pianists Buster Wilson, Cedric Haywood, Don Ewell, and drummer Minor Hall played as members of Ory's band during this period.
Ory's band reignited interest in New Orleans jazz and influenced not only recordings but also the production of popular radio programs, including Orson Welles' Almanac broadcasts and a jazz history series sponsored by Standard Oil.
Ory was also the composer of "Muskrat Ramble," "Ory's Creole Trombone," and "Savoy Blues." He retired from music in 1966 and spent his later years in Hawaii, passing away in Honolulu.
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