(1904-06-02)June 2, 1904 Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.
Died
May 30, 1956(1956-05-30) (aged 51) New York City, U.S.
Genres
Jazz
Occupation(s)
Musician, entertainer
Instrument(s)
Trumpet
Musical artist
Valaida Snow (June 2, 1904[1] – May 30, 1956)[2] was an American jazz musician and entertainer who performed internationally. She was also known as "Little Louis" and "Queen of the Trumpet," a nickname given to her by W. C. Handy.[3]
^Hackman, Florence (2007). Vaudeville, Old & New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America. Psychology Press. ISBN 978-0-415-93853-2.. Other presumed birth years are 1900, 1901, 1903, 1905, and 1907
^Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 2317. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
^Russonello, Giovanni (February 22, 2020). "Overlooked No More: Valaida Snow, Charismatic 'Queen of the Trumpet'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 15, 2020.
ValaidaSnow (June 2, 1904 – May 30, 1956) was an American jazz musician and entertainer who performed internationally. She was also known as "Little Louis"...
Skonberg Jabbo Smith June Smith (jazz singer) Wadada Leo Smith Paul Smoker ValaidaSnow Eivind Solberg Torgrim Sollid Lew Soloff Muggsy Spanier Terell Stafford...
ISBN 978-2-86364-648-9, Pascal Rannou evokes the relationship between ValaidaSnow and Josephine Baker, who is one of the main characters of this story...
Hudgins; dancers U. S. Thompson, Walter Batie, Earl "Snakehips" Tucker, and ValaidaSnow; and many others. In addition, later well-known names such as Florence...
Daddy (1939) The Count Basie Orchestra (1939) with Helen Humes on Decca ValaidaSnow – (1939) Eartha Kitt – That Bad Eartha (1953) Peggy Lee – Black Coffee...
piano. In the 1930s he moved to the Netherlands, where he worked with ValaidaSnow and Coleman Hawkins. He also worked with Jack Kluger's band in Belgium...
Joe Liggins and his Honeydrippers, The Peters Sisters, Slim and Bam, ValaidaSnow, and Big Joe Turner. They played to a crowd of 15,000. Count Basie and...
Smash Mouth Kate Smith Keely Smith Tab Smith Patty Smyth Snoop Dogg ValaidaSnow Jill Sobule Soft Machine Sonic Youth Sonny & Cher The Soul Stirrers Soundgarden...
upset when 19-year-old Nyas left the act in 1932 to marry 27-year-old ValaidaSnow, a popular African-American entertainer. Ananias replaced him with Warren...
St. Louis. Notable performers who performed at Club Riviera include: ValaidaSnow King Cole Trio Sister Rosetta Tharpe Luis Russell Billy Eckstine Miles...
professional career; his first gig was as an accompanist for jazz singer ValaidaSnow. Powell also appeared in performances at Coney Island and Canada Lee's...
McCoy Florence Mills Ma Rainey Bessie Smith Mamie Smith Trixie Smith ValaidaSnow Victoria Spivey Florence Cole Talbert Eva Taylor Big Mama Thornton Sippie...
Count Basie, the Honeydrippers, The Peters Sisters, Slim and Bam and ValaidaSnow were also featured artists. Turner also performed alongside Dizzy Gillespie...
and instrumentalists such as pianist Lil Hardin Armstrong, trumpeter ValaidaSnow, and songwriters Irene Higginbotham and Dorothy Fields. Women began playing...
Armstrong's band the Hot Five and then his next group, the Hot Seven. ValaidaSnow (1904–1956) became so famous as a trumpet player that she was known as...
of Duke Ellington's band, pianist Lovie Austin, trumpeter and singer ValaidaSnow, multi-instrumentalist and composer Yusef Lateef, and saxophonist Bennie...
brother once more, almost up until his death. In 1935 he played with ValaidaSnow in England. On his way to a concert in Groningen on 31 August 1935, he...
television broadcasts for the BBC, and appearances with jazz musician ValaidaSnow in 1936. They danced in France with the Blackbirds of 1934 company, but...
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