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Valaida Snow was so famous for her mastery of the trumpet that she was nicknamed “Little Louis.” Louis Armstrong himself called her the world’s second-best jazz trumpet player—after himself—and W.C. Handy honored her with the nickname “Queen of the Trumpet.” Although Snow achieved massive success internationally, her career never gained the same traction in her home country, the United States. She appeared in French films in Europe and was even gifted a golden trumpet after performing for Queen

Today we celebrate the great Dizzy Gillespie! Here at Studio 104 in Paris, the amiable trumpeter performed with his quintet for the “Jazz Session” TV program. By then, he was already celebrated as a co-founder of bebop, the bold breakaway from the swing era, alongside his partner in crime, Charlie Parker. Dizzy brought down the house with his trumpet finesse. He growled, yelped and joked with good humor. The crowd erupted into ­applause and called for an encore. A true pioneer, forever remembere