ELDRIDGE, DAVID ROY (LITTLE JAZZ
). Jazz trumpeter ( in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). He came from a musical family: his mother played piano and his brother Joseph became a professional musician. He began playing drums when he was six, then later changed to trumpet, which he studied with local teacher P. M. Williams. He began playing professionally at an early age and at fifteen toured with his own group, named by his managers Roy Elliott and His Panama Band from New...