Playlist
Roy Eldridge: Next Steps
Apple Music
Tracks: 1560:24
The king of swing branches out into blues and boogie.
Updated Aug 21, 2017
Tracks 15
- 1The Urbane Jazz Of Roy Eldridge And Benny Carter8:34
- 2Let Me Off Uptown: The Best of Anita O'Day3:07
- 3After You've Gone2:54
- 4The Savory Collection, Vol. 3 - Honeysuckle Rose: Fats Waller & Friends4:23
- 5The Fabulous Swing Collection: More Fabulous Swing2:47
- 6All That Jazz, Vol. 42: Roy Eldridge "New York - Paris!" (Remastered 2015)3:08
- 7The Complete Columbia Recording Sessions, Vol. 3 - 1938-19423:15
- 8After You've Gone2:43
- 9Arrangement3:37
- 101945-19473:45
- 11All That Jazz, Vol. 42: Roy Eldridge "New York - Paris!" (Remastered 2015)3:30
- 121945-19472:40
- 13Roy and Diz9:17
- 14Arrangement3:16
- 15All That Jazz, Vol. 42: Roy Eldridge "New York - Paris!" (Remastered 2015)3:22
About this playlist
Roy Eldridge, dubbed “Little Jazz” for his small stature and boisterous trumpet style, was an absolute giant of swing music, but he ventured into other realms, too. His session with sax man Benny Carter on “Polite Blues” shows how effortlessly Eldridge could settle into a slow, slinky R&B crawl, while his bold, blaring solo on the ‘40s big-band number “Thanks for the Boogie Ride” illustrates how versatile his hard-swinging wail truly was.