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 ...
Since I am currently compiling a biography on Kid Ory, I'm praying that I'll be able to find the buyer and that we can make some kind of arrangement for the return of my father's belongings," Ms. Ory ...
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 ...
Kid Ory Historic House to mark 100th anniversary of first jazz recording by a Black New Orleans band
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, ...
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 ...
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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