Edward “Kid” Ory (December 25th 1886 - January 23rd 1973) was a Tromboniste of Jazz and American leader . It was also Compositeur, in particular standard Muscrat Ramble , Ory' S Creole Trombone and Savoy Blues . It is one of the main actors of the Jazz New-Orleans of the years 1910 and 1920, and played with its orchestra a big role in the “revival” (resurrection) of this movement of the years 1940. He was a typical executant of the style of play of trombone called “tailgate” characteristic of the Jazz New-Orleans, consisting in accompanying the play by the trumpet by a rhythmic counterpoint, punctuated effects of glissandi.

Biography

Kid Ory was born in Woodland Planation close to Laplace in Louisiana. It started in its childhood to play of the music with instruments which it had even arranged to him and as of 10 years it directed a unit considered rather well in Louisiana of south-east. For family reasons, it remained in Laplace until the 21 years age before taking along its whole to Louisiana. Between 1912 and 1919, it directed one of the most popular orchestras of the New-Orleans, engaging many the large musicians of the time, of which the cornet player Joe “King” Oliver, the clarinettists Johnny Dodds and Jimmie Noone and the trumpet players Mutt Carey and Louis Armstrong.

In 1919, it settled in California where it occurred with its orchestra, the Kid Ory' S Creole . It realized there in 1922 under the pseudonym of Spike' S Seven Pods off Pepper Orchestra its first recording - which is also the first recording of a black group - in which one can hear Ory' S Creole Trombone and the Society Blues . At the end years 1920, it was very active in the studios of recording of Chicago with the orchestras of Louis Armstrong (in these famous Hot Five and Hot Seven ), Jello Roll Morton, King Oliver, and well of others. Later, it sank in depression and moved away from the music to deal with farm with his brother.

On its return in California in the years 1940 and 1950, its orchestra, the Creole Orchestrated , was an important engine of the movement of “revival” (resurrection) of the kind New-Orleans of this time, by its popular radiophonic services (of which the Orson Welles “show”) and its recordings.

He dies the January 23rd 1973 with Hawaii after being himself withdrawn of the music in 1966.

External bonds

• Portrait of Kid Ory on the site redhotjazz
• Portrait of Kid Ory on the site The African American Registry