Valaida Snow was a prodigious musician who became so adept at playing the trumpet that Louis Armstrong called her the second-best trumpet player in the world. Snow found fame in the late ’20’s and 1930s in America and across Europe before her death in the ’50’s. Snow was born June 2, 1904 in Chattanooga, […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Clark Terry, a Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter who played in the orchestras of both Count Basie and Duke Ellington and on “The Tonight Show” and collaborated with jazz greats including Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk, has died. He was 94. Terry’s wife announced his death on his website late Saturday night. […]