Kid Thomas Valentine
Kid Avery Howard
Kid Shots Madison
Kid Henry Rena
Kid Sheik Cola
This is a list, not necessarily all-inclusive, of New Orleans jazz trumpet players active in roughly the mid 20th Century who suffered the designation "Kid". According to jazz CW circa 1960: to be so designated was a mark of merit--a kid was one step down from a New Orleans trumpet "King", like King Oliver or King Freddie Keppard or King Louis Armstrong.
But if you examine the work of Kid Howard, for instance, who recorded extensively with NO clarinetist George Lewis, it's easy to arrive at a different take for the appellation Kid, namely that it was a mildly derisive term for the uninspired and semi-competent. And indeed, Alvin Alcorn and John Brunious and Ernest Cagnolatti and Thomas Jefferson were never known as Kids, yet seem, on the basis of aural evidence, to be the class of the NO field.
Anyone have any familiarity with the work of these trumpeting kids?