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David Roy Eldridge (January 30, 1911 – February 26, 1989), nicknamed " Little Jazz ", was an American jazz trumpeter.
Roy Eldridge was an American trumpeter, one of the great creative musicians of the 1930s. A child prodigy, Eldridge began his professional career in 1917 when, on New Year’s Eve, he played the drums in his elder brother’s band.
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Roy David Eldridge fue un trompetista y cantante de jazz de los Estados Unidos de América. Nació en Pittsburg, Pensilvania, el 30 de enero de 1911, y falleció en Valley Stream, Nueva York, el 26 de febrero de 1989.
31 de mar. de 2012 · Roy David Eldridge was a jazz trumpet player in the Swing era. His sophisticated use of harmony, including the use of tritone substitutions, resulted in him sometimes being seen as the link between Louis Armstrong-era swing music and Dizzy Gillespie-era bebop.
Bio. Also known as "Little Jazz," Roy Eldridge was a fiery, energetic trumpeter, the bridge between the towering trumpet stylists Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie. Some of the great rhythmic drive of Eldridge's later trumpet exploits could be traced to his beginnings on the drums, which he began playing at age six.
27 de feb. de 1989 · Roy Eldridge, the jazz trumpeter who was the connecting link in the line that went from the pioneering Louis Armstrong to the modernist innovator Dizzy Gillespie, played with a crackling...
25 de ene. de 2011 · When Gene Krupa invited Roy Eldridge to play lead trumpet in his band in the early '40s, it made a statement: Few musicians broke the color barrier during this time.
