Creole Trombone

by McCusker, John

• ISBN13: 9781617036262
• ISBN10: 1617036269
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-08-24
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi

Summary

Edward "Kid" Ory (1886-1973) was a trombonist, composer, recording artist, and early New Orleans jazz band leader. Creole Trombone tells his story from birth on a rural sugar cane plantation in a French-speaking, ethnically mixed family, to his emergence in New Orleans as the city's hottest band leader. The Ory band featured such future jazz stars as Louis Armstrong and King Oliver, and was widely considered New Orleans's top "hot" band. Ory's career took him from New Orleans to California, where he and his band created the first African American New Orleans jazz recordings ever made. In 1925 he moved to Chicago where he made records with Oliver, Armstrong, and Jelly Roll Morton that captured the spirit of the jazz age. His most famous composition from that period, "Muskrat Ramble," is a jazz standard. Retired from music during the Depression, he returned in the 1940s and enjoyed a reignited career. Drawing on oral history and Ory's unpublished autobiography, Creole Tromboneis a story that is told in large measure by Ory himself. The author reveals Ory's personality to the reader and shares remarkable stories of incredible innovations of the jazz pioneer. The book also features unpublished Ory compositions, photographs, and a selected discography of his most significant recordings.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction Who Was Kid Ory?	p. 3
1886-1896: Le Monde Creole en Campagne	p. 6
ca. 1897-1900: Music	p. 24
1900-1904: Orphan	p. 42
1905-1907: Walking with the King	p. 52
1908-1910: Kid	p. 64
1910-1916: New Orleans	p. 80
1917-1919: Creole Jazz	p. 112
1919-1925: California	p. 134
1925-1933: Chicago Sideman	p. 156
1933-1973: Epilogue	p. 184
Autobiography	p. 189
Autobiography	p. 191
Selected Discography	p. 193
Lost Compositions	p. 200
Notes	p. 210
Index	p. 240
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