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 ...
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, ...
Kid Ory, trombone, vocals, and his Creole Jazz Band (Mutt Carey, trumpet; Omer Simeon or Darnell Howard, clarinet; Buster Wilson, piano; Bud Scott, guitar, vocals; Ed ...
LAPLACE, La. — More than 100 years ago, Jazz was born in LaPlace. Just two years ago, John McCusker brought it back home. The 1811 - Kid Ory Historic House is a museum with two purposes: Preserving ...
The scholarly conference portion of the annual Satchmo SummerFest has examined just about every aspect of Louis Armstrong's personal life, career and legacy. This year, author John McCusker previews ...
In the last hour we listened to the first jazz recordings by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in 1917 and the antecedents of the music. In this hour we will follow the diaspora of New Orleans ...
The 1811/Kid Ory Historic House, the dual-purpose LaPlace museum that chronicles the 1811 German Coast slave uprising and the birth of pioneering jazz trombonist Edward “Kid” Ory, is closing. Its ...
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Ory first noticed Armstrong when the 12-year-old cornet player was leading the Colored Waifs Band down South Rampart Street on Labor Day 1913, McCusker says. Armstrong had been sent to the Colored ...