Here we have have Kid Ory’s Creole Orchestra backing up Blues singer Ruth Lee, just one month before the band recorded their historic sides as Spike’s Seven Pods of Pepper Orchestra. This was Ruth Lee’s only record. Ory’s band also recorded with another Blues singer that same month under the name of Roberta Dudley accompanied by Ory’s Sunshine Orchestra. Several New Orleans bands worked in California in the late Teens and early Twenties, including King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band, The Original Creole Orchesta and Jelly Roll Morton.
| Title | Recording Date | Recording Location | Company |
| Maybe Someday (John Spikes / Reb Spikes) | 6-1922 | Los Angeles, California | Nordskog 3008 B Sunshine 3002-A |
| That Sweet Something (John Spikes / Reb Spikes) | 6-1922 | Los Angeles, California | Nordskog 3008 A Sunshine 3002-B |
| Artist | Instrument |
| Ben Borders | Drums |
| Mutt Carey | Cornet |
| Ruth Lee | Vocals |
| Ed Garlands | Bass |
| Dink Johnson | Clarinet |
| Kid Ory | Trombone |
| Fred Washington | Piano |
Redhotjazz.com was a pioneering website during the "Information wants to be Free" era of the 1990s. In that spirit we are recovering the lost data from the now defunct site and sharing it with you.
Most of the music in the archive is in the form of MP3s hosted on Archive.org or the French servers of Jazz-on-line.com where this music is all in the public domain.
Files unavailable from those sources we host ourselves. They were made from original 78 RPM records in the hands of private collectors in the 1990s who contributed to the original redhotjazz.com. They were hosted as .ra files originally and we have converted them into the more modern MP3 format. They are of inferior quality to what is available commercially and are intended for reference purposes only. In some cases a Real Audio (.ra) file from Archive.org will download. Don't be scared! Those files will play in many music programs, but not Windows Media Player.
