[78-L] Roy Eldridge 100

[yves francois]

Al - for my money Roy sounded best in a cup mute ("The Gasser" where he starts w that cup sound, even late in his career like the Mary Lou Williams LP, the track "Sunday") - when he played quietly one can hear all of his positive traits trumpeter, one can hear his superb sense of swing. beautiful open tone - on "Where The Lazy River Goes By" and "Wabash Stomp" w his band in 19367 one can hear some of the best trumpet on record - but with a band like JATP - yikes, like Jacquet on sax, a great jazzman who liked to screech a lot - I prefer Page or Newton for that reason
Yves François

--- On Sat, 1/29/11, simmonssomer <simmonssomer at comcast.net> wrote:

> From: simmonssomer <simmonssomer at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Roy Eldridge 100
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Saturday, January 29, 2011, 10:54 AM
> He was absolutely great but...he
> often annoyed me with his pyrotechnical 
> high note ego flights.
> I believe that he was better off in an orchestra where he
> was given one or 
> two chorus solos.
> He would go off the wall  and out of context with
> small group recordings and 
> when he sat in live.
> He did behave himself when he played in a  live Trad
> Dixie band venue.
> He was extremely compettitve and, often, that trait
> dominated his playing.
> That being said he belongs in the hall of fame as an
> important  jazz 
> musician.
> 
> Al Simmons
> 
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> > 1911 - good year for trumpeters:
> > Roy Eldridge (Jan 30)
> > Yank Lawson (May 3)
> > Cootie Wiiliams (July 10)
> > Buck Clayton (Nov 12)
> > Kristjan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hans en Corrie skrev 2011-01-29 15:27:
> >> This weekend Roy Eldridge, Mr. Little Jazz, was
> born 100 years ago. This
> >> great trumpet player, now almost forgotten, could
> be labelled as the link
> >> between the older generation of trumpet players
> and the beboppers like 
> >> Dizzy
> >> Gillespie, Howard McGhee and Clifford Brown:
> >>
> >>   <http://keepswinging.blogspot.com/>  http://keepswinging.blogspot.com<
> >> <http://keepswinging.blogspot.com/>  http://keepswinging.blogspot.com/>
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> >> Hans Koert
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