Latest Release
- 25 MAR 2024
- 24 Songs
- The Best of Newport '57: 50th Anniversary Collection · 1961
- Little Jazz Giant · 2004
- Live At the Opera House · 1957
- Swing Trumpets: Roy Eldridge & Charlie Shavers · 2024
- Live At the Opera House · 1957
- Enjoy Bar Jazz, Vol. 2 · 1991
- Little Jazz · 1950
- Echoes · 2003
- Polite Blues · 1952
- Ultimate Anita O'Day · 1999
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