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 ...

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 ...