KID

On this week’s Phantom Dancer presented by myself, Greg Poppleton, the second 2SER Supporter Drive 2019 show,  I’ve put together a non-stop mix of some of my favourite and rare swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio. The feature artist this week is trad trombonist Kid Ory in broadcasts from 1949, 54 and 55.

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ORY

Edward ‘Kid’ Ory was a Louisiana French-speaking bandleader and one of the most influential trombonists of early jazz.

He started playing music with homemade instruments in his childhood. By his teens he was leading a well-regarded band in southeast Louisiana. He kept LaPlace, Louisiana, as his base of operations because of family obligations until his twenty-first birthday, when he moved his band to New Orleans.

TAILGATE

Ory was a banjo player during his youth. He said banjo skills helped him develop ‘tailgate’, his style of playing the trombone with a rhythmic line underneath the trumpets and cornets.

Ory had one of the best-known bands in New Orleans in the 1910s, hiring many of the great jazz musicians of the city, including the cornetists Joe ‘King’ Oliver, Louis Armstrong, who joined the band in 1919, and clarinetists Johnny Dodds and Jimmie Noone.

WEST

He moved to Los Angeles in 1919 and recorded there in 1921 with a band that included Mutt Carey, the clarinetist and pianist Dink Johnson, and the double bassist Ed Garland. Garland and Carey were longtime associates who would still be playing with Ory during his 1940s comeback which we’ll be hearing on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

NORTH

In 1925, Ory moved to Chicago to play record with Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Oliver, Johnny Dodds, Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. He mentored Benny Goodman and, later, Charles Mingus.

WEST AGAIN

During the Great Depression Ory retired from music. He did not play again until 1943. He ran a chicken farm in California. From 1944 to about 1961 he led one of the top New Orleans–style bands of the period. His sidemen during this period included Carey and Garland, the trumpeters Alvin Alcorn and Teddy Buckner; the clarinetists Darnell Howard, Jimmie Noone, Albert Nicholas, Barney Bigard, and George Probert, pianists Buster Wilson, Cedric Haywood, and Don Ewell, and drummer Minor Hall.

IMPORTANT

The Ory band was an important force in reviving interest in New Orleans jazz, making popular 1940s radio broadcasts—among them a number of slots on The Orson Welles Almanac program. In 1944–45 the group made a series of recordings for Crescent Records, which was founded by Nesuhi Ertegun for the express purpose of recording Ory’s band.

During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Ory and his group appeared at the Beverly Cavern in Los Angeles. In the mid-50s he played Club Hangover in San Francisco. Ory retired from music in 1966 and spent his last years in Hawaii.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is film of Kid Ory playing with Henry ‘Red’ Allen at the Salle Pleyel Paris in 1959.

22 OCTOBER PLAY LIST