Roy Eldridge - Little Jazz Plays Swing

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 44:34
Size: 102.0 MB
Styles: Trumpet jazz, Swing
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[ 3:53] 1. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)
[11:50] 2. Rock And Roll
[ 9:51] 3. Me And You Blues
[10:44] 4. Body And Soul
[ 2:26] 5. Embraceable You
[ 5:49] 6. Saturday Night Fish Fry

Little Jazz had a great influence on Dizzy Gillespie -one of the founders of bebop. Although he played with most the early bebop stars, he did not make the switch to bebop. Feeling out-dated musically, Eldridge moved to France for a year and came back to the United States reinvigorated and committed to playing his own brand of swing jazz. He continued to play as a virtuoso trumpeter in several venues. he made some great recordings with Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter and also toured with Norman Grantz's Jazz at the Philharmonic on a regular basis and recorded for Norman Grantz. His trumpet playing was stopped by a heart attack in 1980 and Roy Eldridge died on February 26, 1989.

Known as the musical bridge between Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge was also a hugely important jazz trumpeter in his own right.

Little Jazz Plays Swing

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