Valaida Snow - Until The Real Thing Comes Along (1936)

Valaida Snow (jun.2,1904, may.30,1956, New York City)

was an black American jazz musician and entertainer. Raised on the road in a show-business family, she learned to play cello, bass, banjo, violin, mandolin, harp, accordion, clarinet, trumpet, and saxophone at professional levels by the time she was 15. She also sang and danced.

After focusing on the trumpet, she quickly became so famous at the instrument that she was named "Little Louis" after Louis Armstrong, who used to call her the world's second best jazz trumpet player besides himself. She played concerts throughout the USA, Europe and China.

Her most successful period was in the 1930s when she became the toast of London and Paris. Around this time she recorded her hit song, "High Hat, Trumpet, and Rhythm." She performed in the Ethel Waters show, "Rhapsody In Black", in New York. In the mid-30s she made films with her husband, Ananais Berry, of the Berry Brothers dancing troupe. After playing New York's Apollo, she revisited Europe and the Far East for more shows and films.

Valaida Snow - Until The Real Thing Comes Along (1936)

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• Valaida
• Snow
• 1936
• 30's
• 40's

[Msashay1]

This is real singing and talent. On picth good intonation. No need for autotune either you had it or you didn't. There are many things that we do not know about Ms. Snow, but one thing is for sure is that she was a hard working musician and musical accomplishments need to be celebrated. She spent time in a Nazi concentration camp and survived she is an American Hero. The jazz community has a responsibiity to embrace the jazz legecy of Ms. Snow and give her her props.

[emergdispatch]

One of the dumbest things I ever did was somehow lose a 45 rpm recording by Valaida Snow that I bought in 1953.It was on the Chess label and presumably the last recording she ever made.

It was ,if memory serves, very much in the then popular "Ruth Brown" pre-rocn'n'roll mode.Of course at the time I had no idea Ms Snow had been around for several decades

[MrGeeyess]

beautiiful!

[Banks1042]

This is one of the first two recordings that was released the first year of the song, the other was Andy Kirk!

[predlycon]

is this the original recording?

[TheReturnOfStephan1]

Thank you for posting the work of this wonderful musician! She deserves to be heard.:)

Again, my thanks to you.

[predlycon]

this the original?

[christyamar]

What voice, talent and poise. Sings this better than the others...

[way2muchNFO]

yes

[ddutt80]

rec London, Sep 6, 1936