The real Valaida Snow
My efforts to make it clear that a certain photo by William Claxton does not – as you can read on different websites – show Valaida Snow but Lorraine Glover, trumpeter Donald Byrd’s wife, did not bear much fruit. I thought I could do better than to just bemoan the fact that a lot of people draw the Valaida Snow conclusion as soon as they see a vintage photo with a woman holding a trumpet. So i decided to give you a photo of Valaida in all her glory that you may not have seen before – at least not on the web.
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This is Valaida on the September 1937 issue of Music, the official organ of the Jazz Club de Belgique. This is not a signed copy, the autograph was on the photo they used for the cover. Unfortunately there’s nothing about Valaida inside the magazine. But what a beautiful photograph!
July 17, 2011 at 11:23 am
Lieber Armin
Ich schreibe hier, da ich sonst keine Kontaktinfos gefunden habe:
Nochmals vielen Dank für dein DJ Set gestern im Helsinki. War einmal mehr grossartig! Die perfekte Ergänzung zu Paul das Pausenbrot, um das ganze noch ein wenig stilvoll abzurunden;-)
War irgendwann sehr müde und habe ganz vergessen, mich von euch zu verabschieden… Sorry!
Ich wünsche dir einen schönen Sommer und hoffentlich bis bald
Herzliche Grüsse
Philipp
Paul das Pausenbrot