Blues in Bb Peterson Oscar/Roy Eldridge 1961 At a concert in Italy in 1961 Oscar Peterson and his trio with Herb Ellis gtr, Ray Brown bass, Ed Thigpen drums feature trumpet player Roy Eldridge in a simple arrangement on a Bb blues pattern. Known for his dazzling improvisational skills and intensely competitive nature, Roy Eldridge is generally regarded as a key instrumentalist of the swing era. His extroverted, virtuoso style influenced a generation of swing trumpeters and paved the way for many bebop innovators including Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Dorham and Dexter Gordon.
