Kid Ory And His Creole Jazz Band

Edward Kid Ory (1886/1973). Kid Ory was the greatest trombone player in the early years of Jazz. He originally played banjo, but then switched to trombone. Perhaps his banjo playing helped shape the "tailgate" style of playing he later developed on the trombone. In the "tailgate" style, the trombone plays a rhythmic line underneath the trumpets and cornets. From 1912 to 1919 he led one of the most popular bands in New Orleans. Ory's Band featured many of the great musicians who would go on to define the Hot Jazz style. At various times King Oliver, a young Louis Armstrong, Johnny Dodds, Sidney Bechet and Jimmie Noone all played in Ory's band. In 1919 Ory relocated to California for health reasons. He assembled a new group of New Orleans musicians on the West Coast and played regularly under the name of Kid Ory's Creole Orchestra. In 1922 they became the first African-American jazz band from New Orleans to record. They used the name of "Spike's Seven Pods of Pepper Orchestra" and recorded the songs "Ory's Creole Trombone" and "Society Blues". In 1925 he moved to Chicago, and played regularly with King Oliver, Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five and Hot Seven and with Jelly Roll Morton and several other Chicago groups. During the Depression Ory played very little and ran a chicken ranch with his brother. When the Dixieland revival occurred in the 1940's, Ory found his style of music back in vogue. He revived Kid Ory's Creole Orchestra in 1943 and was able to continue to play, tour and record Jazz until he retired in 1966.

No bom português: só Edu salva! essa postagem. Este é um som maravilhoso, que para os "monoglotas", troglos como eu, mereceria algumas pinceladas de conteúdo na língua pátria. O que sei sobre esse tradicional dixieland jazz é de intuição apenas, de que alguns CDs do autor descansam em paz na cabeceira de Woody Allen e a qualquer momento do dia (deste dia) ele vai por pra tocar, enquanto desenvolve outras tantas deliciosas cenas de cinema.

Edu, a porta dos comentários é serventia da casa... Só mais um recado: a qualidade do áudio está íntegra, límpida absolutamente impecável. O álbum é uma compilação caseira, produzida pela Reco-records (pois é, a genérica começa a se impor) com fragmentos de remasterizações de outros álbuns, já que os originais da época tinham o som realmente muito ruim, como o próprio Edu comentou no Jazz Back'Yard e um exemplar completo da obra, remasterizado, não consegui encontrar.

Kid Ory And His Creole Jazz Band