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Muskat Ramble (ver. 1) by Kid Ory - Piano Sheets and Free Sheet Music

  
About the Song
"Muskrat Ramble" is a jazz composition written by Kid Ory in 1926. It was first recorded on February 26, 1926 by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, and became the group's most frequently recorded piece. It was a prominent part of the Dixieland revival repertoire in the 1930s and 1940s, and was recorded by Bob Crosby, Roy Eldridge, Lionel Hampton, Woody Herman and Lu Watters, among others. It is considered a part of the jazz standard repertoire. Owing to a misprint, on its initial release, the tune was titled "Muskat Ramble". Ory has said that he originally composed the tune in 1921, and that the title was made up by Lil Hardin at the recording session. Armstrong, on the other hand, has claimed in an interview to have written the tune himself, and that it was Ory who only named it. Sidney Bechet has said that it was originally an old Buddy Bolden tune called "The Old Cow Died and the Old Man.    Download this sheet!
About the Artist
Edward "Kid" Ory (December 25, 1886 – January 23, 1973) was a jazz trombonist and bandleader. He was born in Woodland Plantation near LaPlace, Louisiana. Ory started playing music with home-made instruments in his childhood, and by his teens was leading a well-regarded band in Southeast Louisiana. He kept La Place as his base of operations due to family obligations until his twenty-first birthday, when he moved his band to New Orleans, Louisiana. He had one of the best-known bands in New Orleans in the 1910s, hiring many of the great jazz musicians of the city, including, cornetists Joe "King" Oliver, Mutt Carey, and Louis Armstrong; and clarinetists Johnny Dodds and Jimmie Noone. In 1919 he moved to Los Angeles—one of a number of New Orleans musicians to do so near that time—and he recorded there in 1922 with a band that included Mutt Carey, clarinetist and pianist Dink Johnson, and string bassist Ed Garland. Garland and Carey were longtime associates who would still be playing with Ory during his 1940s comeback. In 1925, Ory moved to Chicago, where he was very active, working and recording with Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll.
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