Another early jazz legend revisited by Flora in his later years was New Orleans trombonist
Kid Ory, composer of "Muskrat Ramble." Among Ory's bullet points: around 1918 he had the prescience to hire a promising teen trumpeter just starting a music career:
Louis Armstrong. Here's Flora's classic 1947 Columbia Records 78 rpm album cover:
Forty-six years later, Flora portrayed Ory shouldering a musical blowtorch:
The above unpublished 1993 pen and ink rendering was actually the
third time (at least) that Flora captured Ory. The below unpublished pencil caricature was glued in a scrapbook of early 1940s sketches, and features Ory with fellow trombone legend
Honore Dutrey.
Forty-six years later, Flora portrayed Ory shouldering a musical blowtorch:
The above unpublished 1993 pen and ink rendering was actually the third time (at least) that Flora captured Ory. The below unpublished pencil caricature was glued in a scrapbook of early 1940s sketches, and features Ory with fellow trombone legend Honore Dutrey.
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Didn't recognize the Kid, but spotted Dutrey straight away. I have some vinyl of King Oliver w/Dute on slide. It's stashed in our bin, unit #6SJ7 at the Green Mountain Storage, State Rte. 12. We owe them 160 bucks, so I can't get my mitts on it until we pony up. C'est la yo mama's Vie.
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