Artist
Roy Eldridge
Pittsburgh, United States · 1911 – 1989
Roy Eldridge is a musician from Pittsburgh, United States, active 1911–1989. Their discography on Gatefold includes 5 records. They also recorded with Gene Krupa and His Orchestra and Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra.
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Biography
Roy Eldridge (born January 30, 1911, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA - died February 26, 1989, Valley Stream, New York, USA) also known as "Little Jazz", was an American jazz trumpeter. He was a prominent soloist with the bands of Fletcher Henderson, Gene Krupa and Artie Shaw as well as featured in Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic events and a leader in his own name. Eldridge was given the nickname "Little Jazz" by Leon "Chu" Berry. On Wikipedia and the liner notes of i.a. "Little Jazz" Jazz (France 1978) (opens in a new tab) the nickname was given by the saxophone player Otto Hardwicke (Otto James "Toby" Hardwicke, 1904 – 1970) when they were together in The Elmer Snowden orchestra in the early Thirties.
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Roy Eldridge — solo
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Gene Krupa and His Orchestra
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Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra
A project Roy Eldridge was part of.
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