The abandoned house of jazz great Kid Ory. The greatest and most influential trombone player of New Orleans jazz, Kid Ory played with King Oliver, Louis Armstrong Johnny Dodds, Sidney Bechet and Jimmie Noone. Ory was the first New Orleans jazz musician to record and among the first to migrate to the west coast to introduce jazz to a broader market. This is where Armstrong, King Oliver and the rest would meet. With Ory's band jazz reaches a threshold.
Jazz crosses over from the black honky tonks to broad popular appeal.
When a society debutante had a ball, she hired Ory's band. To their credit, the New Orleans Historic Landmark Commission has identified some three thousand sites in and around the city that were significant in the emergence of jazz. The commission nominates endangered structures, and through the action of the city council structures can be protected. For example, three remaining saloons have been identified in the infamous red light district Storyville, which played host to many of the emerging masters of New Orleans jazz. There is admittedly a matter of discretion in the recognizing, restoring, and providing public access to some of these historic homes and landmarks.