Science Fair Project Encyclopedia He was born in Woodland
Planation near LaPlace, Louisiana. Ory started playing music
with home-made instruments in his childhood, and by his teens
was leading a band well regarded in South-East Louisiana. He
kept La Place as his base of operations due to family
obligations until his 21st birthday, when he moved his band to
Louisiana. He moved to California in 1919 and made his first
recordings there around 1921. In Chicago for most of the 1920s,
he was very active in recording studios, with bands of Louis
Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Joe "King" Oliver, and others.
After this he returned to California and in the 1940s and 1950s
his band was an important force in reviving interest in New
Orleans style jazz, making popular radio broadcasts (including
on the Orson Welles show) and recordings. Ory is also credited
as the composer of numbers including Muscrat Ramble and Savoy
Blues. Ory died in retirement in Hawaii. The contents of this
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