Kid Ory is known best for the work he did in the mid-1920s with the men who had once been his employees. Many essential King Oliver recordings feature Ory, and he is perhaps most famous as the trombone voice on Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five sessions. Ory’s ensemble playing on “Struttin’ with Some Barbecue” would be enough, by itself, to earn Ory pride of place among tailgate trombonists.
Come the Depression, Ory hung up his horn and went to work on a chicken farm outside of Los Angeles. Later, he found employment in a railroad office. It wasn’t until 1942 that Ory got back into the music business: His career enjoyed a renaissance starting in 1944 when Orson Welles hired the pioneering trombonist to lead a band for his radio broadcasts.
By the mid-’50s, when Ory started recording for Norman Granz at Verve, Ory’s second blooming was in full flower. He was touring Europe and the United States to packed houses. Audiences in France were so enthusiastic that Ory supposedly mistook their exuberance for aggression-he thought he was being jeered when he was actually being cheered. A recording of that night’s performance opens the Mosaic set, and in that hyper-charged atmosphere one will hear the closest Ory comes to the sort of raw rowdiness that is typical of so many trad trombonists today.
- Kid Ory - trombone, vocals
- J.C. Higginbotham, Jack Teagarden - trombone
- Alvin Alcorn, Red Allen, Teddy Buckner, Andrew Blakeney - trumpet
- Phillip Gomez, Buster Bailey, Caughey Roberts, Robert McCracken - clarinet
- Cedric Haywood, Claude Hopkins, Lionel Reason, Bob Van Eps - piano
- Wellman Braud, Frank Haggerty - guitar
- Johnny St. Cyr - banjo, guitar
- Arvell Shaw, Charles Oden, Morty Corb, Bob Boyack - bass
- Kansas Fields, Earl Watkins, Jesse Sailes, Alton Redd, Doc Cenardo - drums
CD1 {72:12}
01. Original Dixieland One-Step (5:20)
02. Tiger Rag (3:13)
03. Memphis Blues (4:58)
04. South (3:55)
05. Washington and Lee Swing (5:27)
06. Down in Jungle Town (5:11)
07. Muskrat Ramble (3:07)
08. When the Saints Go Marching In (5:30)
09. Oh, Lady Be Good (4:39)
10. Savoy Blues (4:04)
11. Wabash Blues (5:05)
12. Dippermouth Blues (3:40)
13. Basin Street Blues (4:09)
14. The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise (6:10)
15. Four or Five Times (7:44)
CD2 {64:47}
01. Muskrat Ramble (4:09)
02. High Society (3:51)
03. Tailgate Ramble (5:05)
04. Am I Blue? (7:43)
05. Mahogany Hall Stomp (3:59)
06. Baby Won't You Please Come Home (5:48)
07. Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goodbye) (6:28)
08. Ja Da (5:03)
09. Tiger Rag (5:47)
10. The Sheik of Araby (4:49)
11. St. Louis Blues (6:05)
12. Fidgety Feet (6:00)
CD3 {68:01}
01. Someday Sweetheart (8:21)
02. How Come You Do Me Like You Do, Do, Do (7:29)
03. Hindustan (6:01)
04. Twelfth Street Rag (6:47)
05. Dinah (6:38)
06. Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet (4:27)
07. Somebody Stole My Gal (5:14)
08. Snag It Blues (7:26)
09. Song of the Wanderer (9:50)
10. Runnin' Wild (5:48)
CD4 {72:09}
01. The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise (6:50)
02. Sweet Lorraine (9:02)
03. Ida (7:57)
04. Down by the Riverside (8:24)
05. Spanish Shawl (8:41)
06. Baby Face (8:53)
07. Black and Blue (9:06)
08. Ole Miss (6:25)
09. Swanee River (6:51)
CD5 {70:42}
01. Friendless Blues (5:09)
02. Way Down South (4:52)
03. Joe Turner Blues (4:39)
04. Aunt Hagar's Blues (6:20)
05. Harlem Blues (5:41)
06. St. Louis Blues (5:33)
07. Yellow Dog Blues (3:55)
08. Atlanta Blues (4:35)
09. Loveless Love (4:46)
10. Tishomingo Blues (8:41)
11. (I Wish I Was In) Peoria (5:16)
12. Keep Off Katie's Head (5:50)
13. Christopher Columbus (5:25)
CD6 {74:09}
01. Some of These Days (5:27)
02. In the Mood (3:44)
03. Lazy River (4:13)
04. Come Back Sweet Papa (5:21)
05. San (5:03)
06. Tuxedo Junction (5:37)
07. Ain't Misbehavin' (5:09)
08. I Got Rhythm (5:44)
09. Honeysuckle Rose (5:11)
10. Blues for Jimmy Noone (5:17)
11. Jambalaya (2:50)
12. Ting-A-Ling (3:46)
13. Do What Ory Say (2:55)
14. Walking with the King (2:23)
15. Gettysburg March (2:26)
16. Bye and Bye (2:31)
17. Battle Hymn of the Republic (2:14)
18. It's a Long Way to Tipperary (4:18)
CD7 {70:26}
01. Over the Waves (2:27)
02. Paddle Wheel (2:38)
03. Lassus Trombone (2:32)
04. Nobody's Sweetheart (3:04)
05. San (3:01)
06. C'est l'Autre Can Can (aka Creole Song) (3:02)
07. Creole Bobo (3:11)
08. Blanche Touquatoux (2:37)
09. Sur le Pont d'Avignon (On the Avignon Bridge) (vocal) (3:07)
10. Sur le Pont d'Avignon (On the Avignon Bridge) (instrumental) (1:37)
11. Au Clair de la Lune (In the Light of the Moon) (2:11)
12. Il Etait une Bergere (It Was a Shepherdess) (2:01)
13. Marlborough S'en Va-t-en Guerre (2:37)
14. L'Alouette (2:59)
15. Frere Jacques (Brother John) (1:21)
16. Le Roi Dagobert (King Dagobert) (1:41)
17. Aupres de Ma Blonde (Next to My Blond) (3:41)
18. Ory's Boogie (3:58)
19. Eh Las Bas (5:05)
20. Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home (3:17)
21. Heebie Jeebies (3:15)
22. Brush Stomp (4:07)
23. Sweet Little Papa (3:25)
24. Cornet Chop Suey (3:32)
CD8 {70:41}
01. Without You (For an Inspiration, Dear) (4:26)
02. Muskrat Ramble (4:09)
03. Li'l Liza Jane (4:06)
04. Ory's Boogie (3:35)
05. Squeeze Me (4:41)
06. I'm Crazy About the Way You Walk (3:36)
07. Big Butter and Egg Man (4:08)
08. Storyville Blues (6:17)
09. Doctor Jazz (6:12)
10. Milenberg Joys (5:03)
11. Jelly Roll Blues (3:28)
12. Winin' Boy Blues (4:20)
13. Boogaboo (5:58)
14. Smoke House Blues (4:05)
15. Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans (6:37)
