Latest Release
- 25 MAR 2024
- 24 Songs
- Enjoy Bar Jazz, Vol. 2 · 1991
- Little Jazz Giant · 2004
- Drummer Man · 1956
- Jazz Maturity · 1978
- The Urbane Jazz Of Roy Eldridge And Benny Carter · 1955
- Happy Time · 1975
- Swing Trumpets: Roy Eldridge & Charlie Shavers · 2024
- Top 100 Classics - The Very Best of Art Tatum · 1941
- Jazz Guitar Essentials '55-'59 · 1957
- A Jazz Hour With Coleman Hawkins & Roy Eldridge: Bean and Little Jazz · 2011
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- Tart, adventurous textures from a trumpeter who bridged the swing and bebop eras.
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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