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 '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.