Swingin' on the Town

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Swingin' on the Town
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Studio album by Roy Eldridge
Released 1960
Recorded June 2 & 3, 1960
New York City
Genre Jazz
Length36:37
Label Verve
MGV 8389
Producer Norman Granz
Roy Eldridge chronology
That Warm Feeling
(1957)		Swingin' on the Town
(1960)		 Saturday Night Fish Fry
(1962)

Swingin' on the Town is an album by American jazz trumpeter Roy Eldridge recorded in 1960 and released on the Verve label. [1] [2]

Roy Eldridge American trumpeter

David Roy Eldridge, nicknamed "Little Jazz", was an American jazz trumpet player. His sophisticated use of harmony, including the use of tritone substitutions, his virtuosic solos exhibiting a departure from the dominant style of jazz trumpet innovator Louis Armstrong, and his strong impact on Dizzy Gillespie mark him as one of the most influential musicians of the swing era and a precursor of bebop.

Verve Records American record label

Verve Records, also known as The Verve Music Group, founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, is home to the world's largest jazz catalogue and includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Stan Getz and Billie Holiday, among others. It absorbed the catalogues of Granz's earlier labels, Clef Records, founded in 1946, Norgran Records, founded in 1953, and material previously licensed to Mercury Records.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars stating "Eldridge is the focus here, and his performances are supple, swinging and charming. He doesn't do anything out of the ordinary, but he delivers the expected with grace. Not a major album in his catalog, but certainly an enjoyable one". [3]

Track listing

  1. "Bossa Nova" (Roy Eldridge) - 2:47
  2. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) - 2:26
  3. "Sweet Sue, Just You" (Victor Young, Will J. Harris) - 2:28
  4. "I've Got a Crush on You" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 2:25
  5. "When I Grow Too Old to Dream" (Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II) - 3:03
  6. "Crème de Menthe" (Erroll Garner) - 2:40
  7. "Honeysuckle Rose" (Fats Waller, Andy Razaf) - 4:18
  8. "All the Things You Are" (Kern, Hammerstein II) - 3:30
  9. "Easy Living" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 3:48
  10. "But Not for Me" (Gershwin, Gershwin) - 3:18
  11. "Song of the Islands" (Charles E. King) - 3:07
  12. "Misty" (Garner, Johnny Burke) - 2:45

Personnel

Trumpet musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.

Ronald "Ronnie" Ball was a jazz pianist, composer and arranger, born in Birmingham, England.

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

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References

  1. ↑ Edwards, D. & Callahan, M. Verve Label Discography, accessed December, 11, 2015
  2. ↑ Roy Eldridge Catalog accessed December 11, 2015
  3. 1 2 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Swingin' on the Town – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved December 11, 2015.
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