ORY, EDWARD

ORY, EDWARD (KID). Jazz trombonist (25 December 1886 in La Place, Louisiana; 23 January 1973 in Honolulu, Hawaii). As a child he played banjo and led a boys' band. He began playing professionally in New Orleans, Louisiana, about 1908; from 1913 to 1919 he led one of the most popular bands in the city. In 1919 he settled in California, where he continued to lead his own groups. When he made his recording debut in 1922, it was the first time...