Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Valaida Snow was an African 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.