Roy Eldridge – Little Jazz Special

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Track listing:

00:00 A1 Don’t Be That Way (+)
03:18 A2 I Want To Be Happy (+)
06:21 A3 Fiesta In Brass (+)
09:22 A4 St. Louis Blues (+)
12:04 A5 St. Louis Blues – N.2 (+)
14:48 A6 It Don’t Mean A Thing (°)
18:16 A7 Wild Driver (X)

21:31 B1 In A Mellotone (*)
24:39 B2 Blue Moon (*)
27:49 B3 Gulf Coast Blues (*)
31:00 B4 In There (*)
34:12 B5 After You’ve Gone (-)
37:38 B6 Rockin’ Chair (-)
41:01 B7 My Blue Heaven (^)
41:49 B8 Organ Grinder’s Swing (^)

Personnel:
(+) Little Jazz and His Trumpet Ensemble:
Roy Eldridge, Emmett Berry, Joe Thomas – trumpet
Johnny Guarnieri – piano
Israel Crosby – bass
Cozy Cole – drums
New York , January 24,1944

(°) “King David” and His Little Jazz:
Roy Eldridge – trumpet, vocals
Zoot Sims – tenor saxophone
Dick Hyman – piano
Pierre Michelot – bass
Eddie Shaughnessy – drums
Anita Love – vocals
Paris , June 9, 1950

(x) Roy Eldridge and His Orchestra:
Roy Eldridge = trumpet
Gerald Wiggins – piano
Pierre Michelot – bass
Kenny Clarke – drums
Paris , June 14, 1950

(*) Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra:

  • Roy Eldridge, Art House, Jimmy Pupa, Lyman Vunk, Chuck Zimmerman – trumpet
    Porky Cohen, Ed Fromm, Tommy Pederson, Ben Pickerting – trombone
    Charlie Barnet (as,sop,ts), – alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
  • Buddy De Franco, Ray De Geer – clarinet, alto saxophone
    Kurt Bloom,Andy Pino – tenor saxophone
  • Danny Bank – baritone saxophone
  • Dodo Marmarosa – piano
    Turk Van Lake – guitar
  • Andy Ricardi – bass
  • Harold Kahn – drums

AFRS “Down Beat” N.128 , early ,1944

(-) Roy Eldridge “Tonight” TV Show ,July 21, 1956
Roy Eldridge (tp) with unknown big band

(^) “Soundflights into Jazz” trascriptions, unknown date.
Roy Eldrige (tp) with unknown rhythm section

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Label: Queen-disc ‎– Q – 066
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Country: Italy
Released: 1985