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Trumpeter Mutt Carey got his start like so many others with the marching bands of New Orleans sometime around 1913. His brother Jack was the leader of the Cresent City Orchestra which he played in also. He played with Kid Ory in 1914 and toured on the T.O.B.A. vaudeville circuit in 1917. Carey returned to New Orleans in 1918, then departed for California the following year to work with Ory. He plays trumpet on the "Spike's Seven Pods of Pepper Orchestra" record which was the first Jazz record ever released by African Americans. He took over the band when Ory left for Chicago in 1925 and worked regularly for the Hollywood film studios. Carey rejoined Kid Ory's Creole Orchestra in 1944, then left again in 1947 to form his own band which he gigged with for the rest of his life.