Artist: Roy Eldridge

Title: That's What I'm Here For

Year Of Release: 2024

Label: Nagel-Heyer Records GmbH

Genre: Jazz

Quality: FLAC (tracks)

Total Time: 109:54 min

Total Size: 661 MB



Tracklist:



01. Young Bean

02. Sweethearts on Parade

03. They Can't Take That Away from Me

04. Stormy Weather

05. Gigantic Blues

06. Tea for Two

07. Sweet Georgia Brown

08. I'm Through with Love, The Nearness of You, Moonlight in Vermont, Summertime

09. De-Dar

10. The Gypsy in My Soul

11. I Didn't Know What Time It Was

12. Blue Moon

13. Ja-Da

14. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone

15. A Foggy Day

16. Jazz Me Blues

17. The Nearness of You

18. That's a Plenty

19. Royal Garden Blues

20. The Song Is Ended



Roy Eldridge is one of the most influential musicians of the swing era and a precursor of bebop.



But unlike many trumpet players, Roy Eldridge did not derive most of his inspiration from other trumpeters, but from saxophonists. He first developed his solo style by playing along to recordings of Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter, and later said that, after hearing these musicians: "I resolved to play my trumpet like a sax."



Eldridge was very versatile on his horn, not only quick and articulate with the low to middle registers, but the high registers as well; jazz critic Gary Giddins described Eldridge as having a "flashy, passionate, many-noted style that rampaged freely through three octaves, rich with harmonic ideas impervious to the fastest tempos."