Creole Trombone: Kid Ory and the Early Years of Jazz boosts the reputation of Edward “Kid” Ory — a trombonist, bandleader, recording artist and composer born on the Woodland Plantation in LaPlace on ...

To jazz connoisseurs, lightskinned, leathery Edward (“Kid”) Ory, 58, is an authentic old master. His fame flowered in the Bayreuth of jazz, New Orleans in the early 1900s. Ever since, he has been one ...

Ory in November 1945, during his comeback after working as a janitor. Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images If you were sauntering through the packed-dirt streets of back-of-town New Orleans in the ...

In May 1922 Kid Ory’s Jazz Band entered Andrae Nordskog’s studio in Santa Monica, California, and made the first recording of a Black New Orleans jazz band. The 1811/Kid Ory Historic House in LaPlace, ...

Just when all seemed lost, the 1811 Kid Ory Historic House got a second chance. The museum at a historic LaPlace plantation commemorates two significant events that occurred on its grounds: the start ...

Ory's funeral, said the musician made a “dual contribution" to jazz. He was not only the preeminent trombone player of the jazz era, Levin said, he was also a major figure in the jazz revival of the ...

Kid Ory's Jazz Band in concert at 'Salle Pleyel' in Paris on Oct. 4th 1959. Edeard "Kid" Ory (trombone) Henry "Red" Allen (trumpet) Bob McCracken (clarinet) Cedric Haywood (piano) William Girsback ...