ELDRIDGE, ROY (TRUMPTER),2/27/1989

ROY ELDRIDGE, 78, one of the century's great innovators on the jazz trumpet died Sunday in Valley Stream, N.Y. He became nationally prominent as the featured trumpeter and singer with Gene Krupa's band from 1941 to 1943, at the same time becoming one of the first black jazz musicians to be accepted as a permanent member of the brass section of a white band. His trumpet electrified bands led by Fletcher Henderson, Krupa, Artie Shaw, and Count Basie, as well as his own
groups.