''Roy's Got Rhythm'' is an album by American jazz trumpeter

Roy Eldridge David Roy Eldridge (January 30, 1911 – February 26, 1989), nicknamed "Little Jazz", was an American jazz trumpeter. His sophisticated use of harmony, including the use of tritone substitutions, his virtuosic solos exhibiting a departure from ...

featuring tracks recorded in Sweden in 1951 and released on the

EmArcy EmArcy Records is a jazz record label founded in 1954 by Bob Shad for the American Mercury Records. The name is a phonetic spelling of "MRC", the initials for Mercury Record Company. During the 1950s and 1960s, musicians such as Max Roach, Cli ...

label. The album was originally recorded for the Swedish label Metronome, and some cuts were also released on

Prestige Records Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City which issued recordings in the mainstream, bop, and cool jazz idioms. The company recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz music ...

Reception

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awarded the album 4 stars with its review by Scott Yanow stating: "Between his Paris sessions of 1950 and 1951 for Vogue, trumpeter Roy Eldridge traveled to Sweden and recorded nine spirited selections for Metronome which were reissued on this EmArcy LP. None of Eldridge's sidemen (except for clarinetist Ove Lind who is just on two songs) gained much of a reputation outside of Sweden, but they fare well during these fairly basic performances which are based in swing but also influenced a little by early rhythm & blues".Yanow, S
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Track listing

''All compositions by Roy Eldridge except as indicated'' # "Scotty" (

George Duvivier George Duvivier (August 17, 1920 – July 11, 1985) was an American jazz double-bassist. Biography Duvivier was born in New York City, the son of Leon V. Duvivier and Ismay Blakely Duvivier. He attended the Conservatory of Music and Art, where ...

) – 3:02 # "No Rolling Blues" ( John Collins) – 3:06 # "The Heat's On" – 3:02 # "Saturday Nite Fish Fry Part 1" (

Louis Jordan Louis Thomas Jordan (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975) was an American saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and bandleader who was popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as "Honorific nicknames in popular music, the King ...

, Ellis Walsh) – 2:24 # "Saturday Nite Fish Fry Part 2" (Jordon, Walsh) – 2:34 # "Hoppin' John" (Collins) – 3:09 # "They Raided the Joint" – 3:15 # " School Days" (Will Cobb, Gus Edwards) – 2:58 # "Echos of Harlem" (

Duke Ellington Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American Jazz piano, jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous Big band, jazz orchestra from 1924 through the rest of his life. Born and raised in Washington, D ...

) – 2:47 # "Roy's Got Rhythm" – 3:26 *Recorded in Stockholm, Sweden on January 20 (3–5, 8 & 9), January 22 (tracks 2, 7 & 10) and January 29 (tracks 1 & 6), 1951

Personnel

– trumpet, vocals *Leppe Sundevall –

bass trumpet The bass trumpet is a type of low trumpet which was first developed during the 1820s in Germany. It is usually pitched in 8' C or 9' B today, but is sometimes built in E and is treated as a transposing instrument sounding either an octave, a sixth ...

(tracks 3–5 & 8) *Ove Lind – clarinet (tracks 1 & 6) *

Carl-Henrik Norin Carl-Henrik Norin (27 March 1920 – 23 May 1967) was a Swedish jazz saxophonist. Norin was born in Västerås, and first began playing professionally in the early 1940s, including with Gösta Tönne and Thore Ehrling. As a member of Ehrling's en ...

–

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (whi ...

(tracks 3–5 & 8) *Rolf Berg – guitar (tracks 1 & 6) *Charles Norman – piano,

harpsichord A harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a musical keyboard, keyboard. Depressing a key raises its back end within the instrument, which in turn raises a mechanism with a small plectrum made from quill or plastic that plucks one ...

*Gunnar Almstedt (tracks 1 & 6), Thore Jederby (tracks 2–5 & 7–10) –

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*Anders Burman – drums

References

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