Ory's Creole Trombone

Kid Ory (Spikes' Seven Pods of Pepper Orchestra) · 1922

Context

Composed by Kid Ory and recorded around May 1922 near Los Angeles, at Nordskog, then issued on the Spikes brothers' Sunshine label. It is the first released session by a Black jazz orchestra from New Orleans. Ory's trombone here foreshadows the "tailgate" style.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to New Orleans jazz, New Orleans. Among the origins and influences of New Orleans jazz: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Afro-diasporic roots, Ragtime, New Orleans.

Sources

• adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu
• EN: Ory's Creole Trombone

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