<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>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.<br></div>Although Miles Davis apparently said "no Louis, no me," I do not see any connection.<br></div>"Other than Armstrong" - sure; theoretically - Gillespie. I cannot hear the connection here, either. But then, I cannot hear anything "jazzy" in Miles Davis' playing.<br></div>Cheers<br><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 April 2017 at 20:04, ROBERT R. CALDER <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:serapion@btinternet.com" target="_blank">serapion@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_3440" dir="ltr"><span id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4319">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. <br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4318"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4317"><span id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4316">Roy was called LITTLE JAZZ for reasons which might be obvious from seeing him in a group photograph.</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4315"><span>Tall he was not. <br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4314"><span id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4313">Did the alleged Jazz nerd say that ??????? Roy was called Little Jazz because he "followed Louis"??? <br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4312"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4311"><span id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4310">The earliest recorded solos of Dizzy Gillespie certainly sound like Roy Eldridge, Humphrey Lyttelton once attempted to underline that in a broadcast..... <br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4309"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4308"><span id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4307">Well, all I can say is, photograph me with a trumpet and call me Miles Davis! <br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4306"><span id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4305">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. <br></span></div><div id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4320"><span><br></span></div><div id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4304" dir="ltr"><span>not to mention my Buddy</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>Bolden <br></span></div><div id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4321"><span><br></span></div><div id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4322"><span><br></span></div><div id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4323"><span><br></span></div><div id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4326"><span><br></span></div><div id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4303"><span><br></span></div><div id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4324"><span></span></div><div class="m_3072929085891743917qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="m_3072929085891743917yahoo_quoted" id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_3371" style="display:block"> <div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px" id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_3370"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,Sans-Serif;font-size:16px" id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_3369"> <div dir="ltr" id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_3368"> <font id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_3378" size="2" face="Arial"> <hr id="m_3072929085891743917yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1491756764535_4325" size="1"></font></div><br></div> </div> </div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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