[Dixielandjazz] Roy Eldridge followed Louis Armstrong?

[Marek Boym]

To the best of my memory, Eldridge said he was influenced by saxophonists
more than by other trumpeters.  But human mind wants some kind of linear
development, so Eldridge has been - unjustly - described as "the link"
between Armstrong and Dizzy.
Although Miles Davis apparently said "no Louis, no me," I do not see any
connection.
"Other than Armstrong" - sure; theoretically - Gillespie.  I cannot hear
the connection here, either.  But then, I cannot hear anything "jazzy" in
Miles Davis' playing.
Cheers

On 9 April 2017 at 20:04, ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com> wrote:

> In a sequence of soloists somewhere, perhaps, but as I recall Roy was more
> indebted to the sort of playing which developed alongside Louis A, a
> flowing approach related to what Jabbo Smith was up to, and Roy's initial
> inspiration was such as to keep him a little distant from Louis.
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> Roy was called LITTLE JAZZ for reasons which might be obvious from seeing
> him in a group photograph.
> Tall he was not.
> Did the alleged Jazz nerd say that ???????  Roy was called Little Jazz
> because he "followed Louis"???
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> The earliest recorded solos of Dizzy Gillespie certainly sound like Roy
> Eldridge, Humphrey Lyttelton once attempted to underline that in a
> broadcast.....
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> Well, all I can say is, photograph me with a trumpet and call me Miles
> Davis!
> I did once play baseball with Miles Davis, in Kentucky, but it wasn't the
> blues pianist Miles Davis, of whom there may be no surviving photograph
> though there are recordings, nor was it the trumpeter from St. Louis who
> stylistically derived (as John Postgate argued in an extended essay long
> ago) from an approach other than Armstrong.
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> not to mention my Buddy
> Bolden
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