Kid Ory
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Edward "Kid" Ory was an American jazz composer, trombonist, and bandleader. One of the early users of the glissando technique, he helped establish it as a central element of New Orleans jazz.
House on Jackson Avenue, New Orleans, Ory's residence in the 1910s
Nesuhi Ertegun founded his first label, Crescent Records, to record Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band. (Crescent Number 1, August 1944)
Bass drum used by drummer Ram Hall in Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band, with front head painted promoting the band, on display at 1811 Kid Ory Historic House, LaPlace, Louisiana
Louis Armstrong
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Louis Daniel Armstrong, nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American jazz and blues trumpeter and vocalist. Among the most influential figures in jazz, his career spanned five decades and
Kid Ory
…bands in New Orleans in the 1910s, hiring many of the great jazz musicians of the city, including the cornetists Joe "King" Oliver, Mutt Carey, and Louis Armstrong, who joined the band in 1919; and the clarinetists Johnny Dodds and Jimmie Noone. In 1919, he moved to Los Angeles—one of several New Orleans musicians…
Armstrong in 1947
A snippet from the January 2, 1913, issue of The Times-Democrat, New Orleans
Armstrong (fourth from left) was a member of Fate Marable's New Orleans Band in 1919, shown here on board the S.S. Sidney.
The Fletcher Henderson Orchestra in 1925. Armstrong is the third person from the left.