Edward ‘Kid’ Ory: ‘The greatest slideman ever born’

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Edward ‘Kid’ Ory: ‘The greatest slideman ever born’

Edward “Kid” Ory. Credit: Courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection Bandleader and trombonist Edward “Kid” Ory, who started out playing homemade instruments and banjo before picking up a trombone, was considered an early pioneer of jazz. Jazz great Louis Armstrong said Ory, who gave Armstrong his first professional job, was “the greatest slideman ever born.”  Ory was born Dec. 25, 1886 in LaPlace, where he and six musicians formed the Wood…