Kid Thomas Valentine

"Kid" Thomas Valentine, commonly Kid Thomas ( born February 3, 1896 in Reserve ( Louisiana), † June 18, 1987 in New Orleans) was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader of the New Orleans Jazz.

Kid Thomas Valentine came in his youth to New Orleans, played in the Pickwick Brass Band (1910 ), earned a reputation as a hot trumpeter and founded by Edmond Hall and other members of his family in 1914 a band. Since 1926, he led his own band (Algiers Stompers ), who played mainly in the suburb of Algiers side of the Mississippi. Unlike most other jazz musicians, he retained his blue colored dance band style of New Orleans pre- Armstrong era at a later time. He was so in the 1950s in New Orleans a wider audience; he made the first recordings 1951 1960 and 1961 he was under his own name for the series New Orleans. added The Living Legends of Riverside; since 1961 he played regularly at Preservation Hall. He toured with Preservation Hall orchestras frequently in Europe and even in the Soviet Union. He often played with George Lewis. Also in the 1960s he took with his own band and with the Easy Riders Jazz Band Big Bill Bissonnette ( with whom he also toured a lot) at Jazz Crusade on. He ran even in the 1980s bands at Preservation Hall, the game mostly left but the trumpeter Wendell Brunious. He can also be heard on recordings by Jim Robinson, Captain John Handy and Dee Dee Pierce.