I'm reading Alyn Shiptons 'A New History of Jazz' in parallel with Ira Glitner's oral history "Swing to Bop'.
This afternoon, it's been about the trumpeter Roy Eldridge, and I come across the following description from Shipton:
This blend of influences is readily apparent on a disc Eldridge and Chu Berry made to commemorate their practice of turning up to play in after-hour clubs. 'Sittin' in', cut for Commodore in November, 1938, opens with the two discussing where they will "go out and play some sing", and quickly launches into a fiery thirty-two measure solo from Eldgrdige. In the first sixteen, he leans back on the beat, leaving a short space before launching dramatically into his upper register, but in bars sixteen through twenty four, he play a repeated figure that is derived directly from Hawkins' saxophone style.
And look what I found on YouTube:
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