Roy Eldridge - After You've Gone

[conman3212000]

who is singing in this?

[Lobojack57]

Roy never got enough credit for his class !

[Sk83rSinderella]

Roy will always be the man.

[ErnieHollerhagen]

Roy E. and Harry James had different approaches to playing, as Harry, just like Charlie Shavers and of course, Armstrong, played with a more "open" embouchure, lending itself to a balladesque, rhapsodic style. As tone is concerned, Roy is more a representative of the Rex Stewart, Henry Red Allen line of development in jazz trumpet. The contrast between the two sounds can be heard in the Eldridge/ Shavers "trumpet battle".

[pb4ueat1390]

Wow, my dad was right...Roy was great ! My dad was a big time trumpet player and he always said that Roy was pound for pound the GREATEST trumpet player of ALL TIME.....although, I think Harry James (YOUNG) might of been a little better....but not by much. Great song Roy !

[rcova]

@pb4ueat1390 One of the best players, sure... but I think nobody could beat Dizzy Gillespie.

Also Clifford Brown was a giant. However... great Roy Eldridge!

[Huckabeezer]

The vocal is unquestionably Gladys Palmer.

[Izkzmach]

Imagine if he plays Duke Ellington "The Mooche" that would be cool

[MichaelKingsfordGray]

Absolute consummate mastery of an instrument.

[nathantim]

Dizzy himself said "I aint never used to listen to louis armstrong....i was all about Roy"

[KatzenImNebel]

Fantastic!

[henryfire]

CooL

[Bumblebee38]

TEDDY COLE at the piano

Scoop Carey andJoe Elridge on Alto Sax

Dave Young Tenor sax

the GREAT Zutty SINGLETON on DRUMS

Frp om 1937 issue on Vo 3458

Roy was Far better and Faster than PUNCH MILLER and ARMSTONG indeed

Taht is GREAT JAZZ ever SWING music at its BEST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[YoureMistakenSir]

Magnificent!! Check out the version with Krupa's band--he plays this double time!!

[dragonjig]

No one to this day can get that vocal buzz to the trumpet tone like "Little Jazz" Roy

[bitsterini]

Vocal sounds like Alberta Hunter, but I'm not sure.

[teebeesea]

It's Gladys Palmer...she also sings a nice vocal on the flip of the original 78: "Where The Lazy River Goes By."

[bitsterini]

Thanks. I'm not familiar with her work. Will look into her history.

[Bumblebee38]

@teebeesea

The VOCAL is by ROY Eldridge Himself !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JoeySunB]

@Bumblebee38 Roy is the BEST . but most under -rated by the general public . A trumpet KING :

" ... no you ; no me ! " Diz about Roy Eldridge .

Joey

[yndarjabelo]

It's Anita O'day

[steelcitysong]

.....eldridge at his best.... he IS the b r i d g e between Louis and Diz..... in his day there was no one like him.... his running streams of notes and peels was him playing the trumpet more like a sax.... relentless! and fabulous.....eldridge influenced a generation of players and changed the trumpet "style" forever.....

[Zat01ch1]

This guy is the missing link between Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie. He was bebop before it was bebop. Effortless phrasing and playing, this guy is awesome.

[jibsmokestack1]

The link cliche is logical but inaccurate in my opinion. Henry Red Allen played an important role int the development of Jazz Trumpet b4 Eldridge. He was never a proto-bop stylist. Fast and harmonically complex yes, but firmly rooted stylistically, particularly in the emotional content of his playing, in the Swing Era. Little Jazz, was no doubt though, a true Giant of the idiom!

[skweenison1]

Good point. But he sure isn't missing! I think i am hearing him play right now :)

[BrunoJazzmanLeicht]

@Zat01ch1 -- Sorry, I can't quite agree here: Although you're right regarding his indeed "effortless phrasing and playing", Little Jazz was never missing ;)

Dizzy has copied him note for note in his early days what you clearly can hear in one of his early solos: "Hot Mallets", a Lionel Hampton All Star group from 9/11/39; That's pure Little Jazz, but still not quite "real" bop.

[fefeloved1]

@Zat01ch1

He was Dizzy's inspiration

[HJWins]

@fefeloved1 dizz and roy for that matter were influenced by the great harry james

[johnsurs22]

@HJWins sorry can't agree here- eldridge started coming out

in the 30s, and his main contemporaries were Berigan and Armstrong.

Of course, Armstrong started earlier than all three, so Roy's main influence

was Armstrong. At around the same time (mid-30s), Harry James was just

starting to come out, so he was really after Eldridge and Berigan.

[TheBritishUnionist]

@Zat01ch1 100% agree with you mate. THE most underrated player of all. Just great!

[baronrojomike]

who's the singer?

[teebeesea]

Gladys Palmer

[bakidk]

the pianist is my brother, Bobo McCheese.

[clewisfan]

anyone know who the pianist is here?

[iamalone1961]

Era bravissimo, un poco in seconda linea, anche perchè modestissimo. La sua interpretazione di Stormy Weather è rimasta leggendaria!!!