- Operated his own nightclub in Los Angeles in the 1950s and early '60s.
- His best-known composition is the jazz standard "Muskrat Ramble".
- Jazz trombonist and bandleader.
- Inducted into the Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame in 1986.
- Became the first black New Orleans musician to make records in 1922.
- Retired to Hawaii in 1966.
- Made his most famous recordings in Chicago between 1925-30, in conjunction with Joe Oliver, Louis Armstrong and Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton.
- Kid Ory composed "Muskrat Ramble" with Ray Gilbert. The song would be lifted in 1969 by Country Joe MacDonald of Country Joe and the Fish for Joe's tune "The "Fish" Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" performed at Woodstock (1969) film and soundtrack.
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