I Can't Get Started - Roy Eldridge

I Can't Get Started Eldridge Roy 1958

Roy Eldridge in 1958 at one of the Art Ford jazz parties playing "I'Can't Get Started".
Johnny Guarnieri is on piano and Ozie Johnson on drums
Roy Eldridge (1911 -- 1989) was a jazz trumpet player in the Swing era. His sophisticated use of harmony, including the use of tritone substitutions, resulted in him sometimes being seen as the link between Louis Armstrong-era swing music and Dizzy Gillespie-era bebop. His nickname was Little Jazz. Roy's rhythmic power to swing a band was a dynamic trademark of the Swing Era.
Eldridge was very versitile on his horn, not only quick and articulate with the low to middle registers, but the high registers as well. The high register lines that Eldridge employed were one of many promenent features of his playing, another being blasts of rapid double time notes followed by a return to standard time.