1. Edward "Kid" Ory was an American jazz composer, trombonist and bandleader.
21 Facts About Kid Ory
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Kid Ory was born near LaPlace, Louisiana and moved to New Orleans on his 21st birthday, to Los Angeles in 1910 and to Chicago in 1925.
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The Ory band later was an important force in reviving interest in New Orleans jazz, making radio broadcasts on The Orson Welles Almanac program in 1944, among other shows.
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Kid Ory retired from music in 1966 and spent his last years in Hawaii where he died from a heart attack.
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Kid Ory started playing music with homemade instruments in his childhood, and by his teens was leading a well-regarded band in southeast Louisiana.
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Kid Ory kept LaPlace as his base of operations because of family obligations until his twenty-first birthday, when he moved his band to New Orleans.
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Kid 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 with a rhythmic line underneath the trumpets and cornets.
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When Kid Ory was living on Jackson Avenue, he was discovered by Buddy Bolden, playing his first new trombone, instead of an old Civil War trombone.
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Kid Ory's sister said he was too young to play with Bolden.
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Kid Ory moved his six-piece band to New Orleans in 1910.
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Kid 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 the cornetists Joe "King" Oliver, Mutt Carey, and Louis Armstrong, who joined the band in 1919; and the clarinetists Johnny Dodds and Jimmie Noone.
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Kid Ory's band recorded with Nordskog Records; Ory paid Nordskog for the pressings and then sold them with his own label, "Kid Ory's Sunshine Orchestra", at Spikes Brothers Music Store in Los Angeles.
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In 1925, Kid Ory moved to Chicago, where he was very active, working and recording with Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Oliver, Johnny Dodds, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, and many others.
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Kid Ory was said to have attempted to take trombone lessons from a "German guy" who played in the Chicago symphony, but Ory was turned away after a few lessons.
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Kid Ory was a member of the original lineup of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five which first recorded on November 12,1925.
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The Kid Ory band was an important force in reviving interest in New Orleans jazz, making popular 1940s radio broadcasts that began with weekly spots on The Orson Welles Almanac program.
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Kid Ory retired from music in 1966, and spent his last years in Hawaii, with the assistance of Trummy Young.
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Kid Ory died of pneumonia and a heart attack in Honolulu.
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Kid Ory was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California.
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Kid Ory had a wife named Elizabeth and one daughter.
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Kid Ory was Catholic, baptized at St Peter Church in Reserve, Louisiana.