Little Jazz

1955 studio album by Roy Eldridge

Little Jazz

Studio album by

Roy Eldridge

Released

1955

Recorded

September 14, 1954
Fine Sound Studios, NYC

Genre

Jazz

Label

Clef
MGC 683

Producer

Norman Granz

Roy Eldridge chronology

Dale's Wail
(1954)

Little Jazz
(1955)

Roy and Diz
(1954)

Little Jazz is an album by American jazz trumpeter Roy Eldridge recorded in 1954 and originally released on the Clef label.^[1]^[2] "Little Jazz" was Roy Eldridge's nickname.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[3]

Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars.^[3]

Track listing

"A Foggy Day" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 5:44
"Blue Moon" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 4:00
"Stormy Weather" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) - 4:27
"Sweethearts on Parade" (Carmen Lombardo, Charles Newman) - 4:33
"If I Had You" (Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, Ted Shapiro) - 3:48
"I Only Have Eyes for You" (Harry Warren, Al Dubin) - 7:15
"Sweet Georgia Brown" (Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey) - 4:32
"The Song Is Ended" (Irving Berlin) - 3:35

Personnel

References

^ Edwards, D. & Callahan, M. Clef Label Discography, accessed November 24, 2015
^ Clef Records Catalog: 600 series accessed November 24, 2015
^ ^a ^b Allmusic listing, accessed November 24, 2015

Roy Eldridge

Studio albums

Rockin' Chair [with Buddy Tate, Oscar Peterson, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown] (1951–52)
Dale's Wail (1953)
Little Jazz (1954)
Roy and Diz [with Dizzy Gillespie, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, Louie Bellson] (1954)
Roy's Got Rhythm (1955)
Urbane Jazz [with Benny Carter] (1955)
Oscar Peterson and Roy Eldridge (1974)
The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner [with Big Joe Turner, Dizzy Gillespie, Harry "Sweets" Edison and Clark Terry] (1974)
Happy Time (1975)
Jazz Maturity...Where It's Coming From (1975)
Oscar Peterson and the Trumpet Kings – Jousts (1975)

Compilation albums

Heckler's Hop (1995)

Live albums

Hawkins! Eldridge! Hodges! Alive! At the Village Gate! (with Coleman Hawkins and Johnny Hodges (1962)
The Trumpet Kings at Montreux '75 (with Dizzy Gillespie and Clark Terry) (1975)
Montreux 1977 (with Oscar Peterson, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Bobby Durham (1977)

Oscar Peterson

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release. Note: All-Star albums feature sideman who are not necessarily listed while titles which include "Oscar Peterson" or the OP Trio are usually shortened.

As
leader
or
co-leader

Plays series	Duke Ellington (1952) George Gershwin (1952) Harold Arlen (1954) Count Basie (1955)
1955–58	In a Romantic Mood (with Russ Garcia, 1955) At the Stratford Shakespearean Festival (1956) At the Concertgebouw (1957) Soft Sands (with Buddy Bregman, 1957) Trio with Sonny Stitt, Roy Eldridge and Jo Jones at Newport (1957) My Fair Lady (1958) On the Town (1958) A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra (1959) The Jazz Soul (1959) Swinging Brass (with Russ Garcia, 1959) Fiorello! (1960)
Plays the Songbook (1959)	Cole Porter Duke Ellington George Gershwin Harold Arlen Jerome Kern Richard Rodgers Porgy & Bess
The London House Sessions (1961)	Put On a Happy Face Something Warm The Sound of the Trio The Trio (Verve)
Trio & Guests	Very Tall (with Milt Jackson, 1961) Affinity (1962) Bursting Out with the All-Star Big Band! (1962) Night Train (1962) West Side Story (1962) And Nelson Riddle (1963) Canadiana Suite (1964) Plays (1964) + One (with Clark Terry, 1964) We Get Requests (1964) Eloquence (1965) I/We Had a Ball (multiple groups, 1965) With Respect to Nat (1965) Blues Etude (1966) Soul Español (1966) The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple groups, 1967)
Exclusively for My Friends	Action (1963–64) Girl Talk (1965–68) The Way I Really Play (1967) The Lost Tapes (1967–68) Mellow Mood (1968) My Favorite Instrument (1968) Travelin' On (1968)
1969–79	Hello Herbie (1969) Motions and Emotions (with Claus Ogerman, 1969) Another Day (1970) Tracks (1970) Tristeza on Piano (1970) Walking the Line (1970) Great Connection (1971) In Tune (and The Singers Unlimited, 1971) Reunion Blues (and Milt Jackson, 1971) In Tokyo (1972) Solo (1972) The History of an Artist, Vol. 1 (1972) The History of an Artist, Vol. 2 (1972) The trio (Pablo, 1973) In Russia (1974) The Giants (1974) The Good Life (1974) Oscar Peterson et Joe Pass à Salle Pleyel (1975) Porgy and Bess (and Joe Pass, 1975) The Oscar Peterson Big 6 at Montreux (1975) The Tenor Giants (and Zoot Sims and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1975) And the Bassists – Montreux '77 (and Ray Brown & Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 1977) Jam – Montreux '77 (1977) The London Concert (1978) The Paris Concert (1978) Digital at Montreux (1979) Night Child (1979) Skol (with Stéphane Grappelli, 1979)
With The Trumpet Kings	Roy Eldridge (1974) Dizzy Gillespie (1974) Jousts (1974) Harry Edison (1974) Clark Terry (1975) Jon Faddis (1975) At Montreux '75 (Eldridge, Gillespie & Terry, 1975) The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (with Gillespie, Hubbard & Terry, 1980) The Alternate Blues (with Gillespie, Hubbard & Terry, 1980)
1980–2004	Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 1980 (1980) The Personal Touch (1980) A Royal Wedding Suite (1981) Nigerian Marketplace (1981) Face to Face (with Freddie Hubbard, 1982) Freedom Song (1982) A Tribute to My Friends (1983) If You Could See Me Now (1983) Jazz at the Philharmonic – Yoyogi National Stadium, Tokyo 1983: Return to Happiness (multiple groups, 1983) Two of the Few (with Milt Jackson, 1983) Live! (1986) Time After Time (1986) Live at the Blue Note (1990) Saturday Night at the Blue Note (1991) Last Call at the Blue Note (1992) Encore at the Blue Note (1993) Side by Side (with Itzhak Perlman, 1994) The More I See You (1995) An Oscar Peterson Christmas (1995) A Tribute to Oscar Peterson – Live at the Town Hall (1996) Oscar in Paris (1996) Meets Roy Hargrove and Ralph Moore (1996) Oscar and Benny (with Benny Green, 1998) Summer Night in Munich (1998) Trail of Dreams: A Canadian Suite (2000) A Night in Vienna (2004)