Editing Mutt Carey (section)

== Career ==
Although Carey's early work was with brass bands in the New Orleans area (1913–17),<ref name=zeiff/> in 1914, he started working with [[Kid Ory]]<ref name=zeiff>Zieff, Bob. [https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/browse?page=34&pageSize=20&sort=titlesort&subSite=grovemusic&t=music_Topics%3A42&t0=music_Eras%3A9 "Carey, (Papa) Mutt".] ''Grove Music Online''. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 26 November 2022.</ref> and would continue to do so, on and off, through the 1910s.

After touring the [[vaudeville]] circuits in 1917,<ref name=zeiff/> he returned to New Orleans in 1918<ref name=zeiff/> and then went to [[California]] with Ory in 1919,<ref name=zeiff/> eventually taking over leadership of the band when Ory left in 1925.<ref name=zeiff/>

Carey's big band, the Jeffersonians, appeared in the silent films ''[[The Legion of the Condemned]]'' and ''[[The Road to Ruin (1928 film)|The Road to Ruin]]'' (both 1928).<ref name=zeiff/>

Carey rejoined Ory's band from around 1929 to 1933, when the lack of work during the Depression led him to work as a Pullman porter.<ref name=zeiff/> In 1941, he was a pallbearer at the funeral of [[Jelly Roll Morton]] in [[Los Angeles]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Bury Jelly Roll Morton on Coast |journal=[[DownBeat]] |date=August 1, 1941 |volume=8 |issue=15 |page=13 |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_down-beat_1941-08-01_8_15/page/13/mode/1up |access-date=13 April 2024}}</ref>

In March 1944 Carey rejoined Ory in an all-star band that was a leader of the West Coast revival of traditional New Orleans jazz, put together for the [[CBS Radio]] series ''[[The Orson Welles Almanac]]''. The All Star Jazz Group also included [[Ed Garland]], [[Jimmie Noone]] (succeeded by [[Barney Bigard]]), [[Bud Scott]], [[Zutty Singleton]] and [[Buster Wilson]].<ref name="Goldin Almanac">{{cite web |url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Radio%20Almanac |title=Radio Almanac |publisher=RadioGOLDINdex |accessdate=2014-04-01 |archive-date=2018-09-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915215501/http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Radio%20Almanac |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Almanac Part 1">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/1944OrsonWellesRadioAlmanacpart1 |title=Orson Welles Almanac—Part 1 |publisher=[[Internet Archive]] |accessdate=2014-04-01}}</ref><ref name="Almanac Part 2">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/1944OrsonWellesRadioAlmanacpart2 |title=Orson Welles Almanac—Part 2 |publisher=[[Internet Archive]] |accessdate=2014-04-01}}</ref> Renamed Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band, the group then made a significant series of recordings on the [[Crescent Records]] label.<ref name="Ertegun">[[Nesuhi Ertegun|Ertegun, Nesuhi]]. Liner notes for ''Tailgate! Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band''. [[Good Time Jazz Records]] L-10 and L-11, 1953, also used for Good Time Jazz Records L-12022, 1957.</ref>

Carey left Ory's band in 1947 to lead a group under his own name.<ref name="LarkinJazz" />