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Roy Eldridge

real name David Roy Eldridge

United States · 1911-01-30 – 1989-02-26

Roy Eldridge is credited on 2,868 releases across 710 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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2,868

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710

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132

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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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