Kid Ory: Mahogany Hall Stomp-Quadromania Jazz Edition

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One of the most important pioneers of both New Orleans jazz and the trombone, Kid Ory had the top rated band in New Orleans back in 1915. Born in nearby La Place, Louisiana on Christmas 1886, Ory started on banjo when he was ten, soon switching to valve trombone and eventually slide trombone. He moved to New Orleans in 1912 and quickly established the tailgate style, a percussive approach that emphasized the trombone's slides and harmonizing. In 1919 he moved to California, leading a band with cornetist Mutt Carey that made historic recordings in 1922. Three years later he relocated to Chicago where Ory worked and recorded with King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Johnny Dodds and Louis Armstrong, becoming famous in the jazz world. After a time out of music in the 1930s, Ory made a comeback in 1944 to organize a New Orleans jazz band for Orson Welles' radio show. The group's appearances became very popular so Ory led his own Creole Jazz Band up until the early 1960s, recording and performing often.

Kid Ory's four-CD Quadromania features his later bands in a variety of settings during 1944-54. With such notables as trumpeters Mutt Carey, Andrew Blakeney, Teddy Buckner and Alvin Alcorn, and clarinetists Joe Darensbourg, Barney Bigard, Albert Nicholas and Omer Simeon plus a guest appearance by Leadbelly, Ory is heard in his later prime. In addition to the many broadcast performances (most of which were formerly rare), Ory is heard on four vintage selections from the 1920s.

This very enjoyable set features classic revival New Orleans jazz.

-Scott Yanow

Contents

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CD 1 (TT: 42:37): High Society; Savoy Blues; Clarinet Marmalade; Oh! Didn't He Ramble; Blues; Muskrat Ramble; Blues Habanera; Creole Song; Lonesome Road; High Society; Maple Leaf Rag; Improvisation in B-flat; Muskrat Ramble; Bye 'n' Bye; Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Closing Dialogue.

CD 2 (TT: 62:37): Do What Ory Say; Careless Love; Eh! La Bas; Basin Street Blues; Rifle Rangers; Blues for Jimmy; High Society; Boogie Woogie; Sister Kate; Memphis; Oh! Didn't He Ramble; Without You for an Inspiration; All the Girls So Crazy; Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night.

CD 3 (TT: 51:47): Panama Rag; Sister Kate; Mahogany Hall Stomp; Margie; Chinatown, My Chinatown; Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans; Sugar Foot Stomp; Black and Blue; Oh! Didn't He Ramble; At the Jazz Band Ball; High Society; Sweet Georgia Brown; San; Shake That Thing; Ory's Boogie.

CD 4 (TT: 64:39): Ory's Creole Trombone; 29th and Dearborn; Gatemouth; Papa Dip; South; Blues for Jimmy; Muskrat Ramble; Wolverine Blues; Maple Leaf Rag; Clarinet Marmalade; That's a Plenty; Gettysburg March; Yellow Dog Blues; I Found a New Baby; When the Saints Go Marching In.

Kid Ory, Trombone; Mutt Carey, Andrew Blakeney, Teddy Bruckner, Alvin Alcorn, Trumpets; George Mitchell, Cornet; Albert Nicholas, Clarinet/Soprano Sax/Alto Sax; Joe Clark, Alto Sax; Wade Whaley, Joe Darensbourg, Barney Bigard, Dink Johnson, Johnny Dodds, Omer Simeon, George Probert, Clarinets; L.Z. Cooper, Buster Wilson, Fred Washington, Lloyd Glenn, Luis Russell, Lil Armstrong, Don Ewell, Pianos; Bud Scott, Bill Newman, Guitars; Johnny St. Cyr, Banjo; Huddie Leadbetter, Vocals/Guitar; Ed Garland, Stand-up Bass; Minor Hall, Zutty Singleton, Charlie Blackwell, Ben Borders, Alton Redd, Drums.