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Roy Eldridge
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 [a=Fletcher Henderson], [a=Gene Krupa] and [a=Artie Shaw] as well as featured in [a166628]'s Jazz at the Philharmonic events and a leader in his own name. Eldridge was given the nickname "[a=Little Jazz]" by [a=Leon "Chu" Berry]. On Wikipedia and the liner notes of i.a. [r3150375] 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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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Eldridge
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https://www.allmusic.com/album/little-jazz-cbs-mw0000201768
https://indianapublicmedia.org/nightlights/portrait-jazz-roy-eldridge.php
https://www.jazzdisco.org/roy-eldridge/discography/
https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/roy-eldridge
https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/103162/Eldridge_Roy