[78-L] Roy Eldridge 100

simmonssomer simmonssomer at comcast.net
Mon Jan 31 06:13:25 PST 2011


You're right Yves. Check him out at the Arcadia ballroom. He's at his best.

Al S.
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From: "yves francois" <aprestitine at yahoo.com>
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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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> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 9:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Roy Eldridge 100
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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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