Latest Release
- 25 MAR 2024
- 24 Songs
- Little Jazz Giant · 2004
- Swing Trumpets: Roy Eldridge & Charlie Shavers · 2024
- Swing Trumpets: Roy Eldridge & Charlie Shavers · 2024
- Swing Trumpets: Roy Eldridge & Charlie Shavers · 2024
- Swing Trumpets: Roy Eldridge & Charlie Shavers · 2024
- Swing Trumpets: Roy Eldridge & Charlie Shavers · 2024
- Swing Trumpets: Roy Eldridge & Charlie Shavers · 2024
- Swing Trumpets: Roy Eldridge & Charlie Shavers · 2024
- In Concert (Copenhagen, May 21, 1959) · 2022
- In Concert (Copenhagen, May 21, 1959) · 2022
Artist Playlists
- Tart, adventurous textures from a trumpeter who bridged the swing and bebop eras.
Appears On
- Chu Berry and His Little Jazz Ensemble, Coleman Hawkins & The Chocolate Dandies
About Roy Eldridge
Pittsburgh-born trumpeter Roy Eldridge, affectionately known as "Little Jazz," is one of the key figures in the evolution of jazz trumpet. He started out playing with Midwestern "territory" bands, but from the mid-1930s through the '50s, he was with some of the biggest bands in jazz (Fletcher Henderson, Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman) in addition to leading his own group. A pioneer of swing-era trumpet, he was also extremely influential to bebop pioneers such as Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, though Eldridge himself never embraced the style.
- HOMETOWN
- Pittsburgh, PA, United States
- BORN
- 30 January 1911
- GENRE
- Jazz