Roy Eldridge & Richie Kamuca Quintet - At The Half Note (2017)

David Roy Eldridge (January 30, 1911 - February 26, 1989), commonly known as Roy Eldridge, and nicknamed 'Little Jazz', was an American jazz trumpet player. His sophisticated use of harmony, including the use of tritone substitutions, his virtuosic solos exhibiting a departure from the smooth and lyrical style of earlier jazz trumpet innovator Louis Armstrong, and his strong impact on Dizzy Gillespie mark him as one of the most influential musicians of the swing era and a precursor of bebop. Richie Kamuca was born in Philadelphia, and, like many players associated with West Coast jazz, grew up in the East before moving West around the time that bebop changed the prevailing style of jazz. His early playing, in what is generally considered the Lester Young style, was done on tour with the big bands of Stan Kenton and Woody Herman, where he became a member of the later lineups of Herman's Four Brothers saxophone section with Al Cohn and Bill Perkins.