Roy Eldridge
January 30, 1911 (114 years old) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
David Roy Eldridge (January 30, 1911 – February 26, 1989), nicknamed "Little Jazz", was an American jazz trumpeter. His sophisticated use of harmony, including the use of tritone substitutions, his virtuosic solos exhibiting a departure from the dominant style of jazz trumpet innovator Louis Armstrong, and his strong impact on Dizzy Gillespie mark him as one of the most influential musicians of the swing era and a precursor of bebop.
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- 2008 · Coleman Hawkins – In Europe, London, Paris & Brussels as
- 1974 · Ella Fitzgerald: Live in Cologne as Self - Trumpet
- 1969 · Das Sonntagskonzert as Self
- 1964 · Ella as
- 1961 · After Hours as Himself
- 1942 · Let Me Off Uptown as Dancer
- 1941 · Ball of Fire as Trumpeter (uncredited)