Latest Release
- 25 MAR 2024
- 24 Songs
- Little Jazz Giant · 2004
- The Urbane Jazz Of Roy Eldridge And Benny Carter · 1955
- Sunday Jazz - Verve 50 · 2003
- Drummer Man · 1956
- Little Jazz · 1950
- Ultimate Anita O'Day · 1999
- Fiesta In Brass · 1995
- Jazz Guitar Essentials '55-'59 · 1957
- Swing Trumpets: Roy Eldridge & Charlie Shavers · 2024
- Dizzy 100 · 2003
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