EDWARD "KID" ORY
Original New Orleans Jazz • United States
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MY DAD EDWARD KID ORY,WAS BORN 25 DEC 1886 ON HIS COUSINS SUGARCANE PLANTATION IN LA PLACE ,LOUISIANA,WHEN HE WAS A BOY HE BUILT HIS OWN BANJO&OTHER HOMEMADE INSTRUMENTS,FORMED HIS OWN BAND @10 YEARS OF AGE,AT 13 GOT HIS FIRST REAL BANJO,THE MOVED ON TO CIVIL WAR INSTRUMENTS,UPON GETTING HIS FIRST GOOD TROMBONE,WAS DISCOVERED BY BUDDY BOLDEN. BY 23 HE WAS A PERMANENT FIXTURE IN STOREYVILLE ,THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT OF NEW ORLEANS(CLOSED BY ORDER OF US NAVY 1917). HIS STYLES CAME FROM SKIFFLES,RAGS,BLUES,THEN PROGRESSED INTO JASS(SIC) LATER HE STARTED ADVERTISING ON HIS WAGON FOR DANCES &CUTTING CONTESTS, JAZZ BAND FOR HIRE,HIS FIRST BAND,TURNED INTO THE ORY/OLIVER BAND WITH JOE KING OLIVER, OLIVER &KID TOOK LOUIS ARMSTRONG UNDER THERE WINGS. IN 1919,KID LEFT NEW ORLEANS ,ARRIVING IN LOS ANGELES HE WOULD RECORD THE FIRST JAZZ RECORDING OF NEW ORLEANS JAZZ BY PEOPLE OF COLOR,.LATER IN THE 1920'S IN CHICAGO
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