Happy Time (Roy Eldridge album)

This article is about the album by Roy Eldridge. For the album by Junior Mance, see Happy Time (Junior Mance album). 1975 studio album by Roy Eldridge

Happy Time

Studio album by Roy Eldridge

Released

1975

Recorded

June 4, 1974

Genre

Jazz

Length

47:30

Roy Eldridge chronology

Jazz Maturity...Where It's Coming From
(1975)

Happy Time
(1975)

The Trumpet Kings at Montreux '75
(1975)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

Happy Time is a 1975 studio album by Roy Eldridge.

Track listing

"Sweethearts on Parade" (Carmen Lombardo, Charles Newman) – 4:20
"Willow Weep for Me" (Ann Ronell) – 7:01
"Makin' Whoopee" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 4:42
"Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You" (Andy Razaf, Don Redman) – 3:33
"All of Me" (Gerald Marks, Seymour Simons) – 4:45
"I Want a Little Girl" (Murray Mencher, Billy Moll) – 4:10
"On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 6:55
"I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) – 4:43
"Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)" (T-Bone Walker) – 5:18
"Let Me Off Uptown" (Earl Bostic, Redd Evans) – 3:04

Personnel

Performance

Production

Phil DeLancie - digital mastering, remastering
Phil Stern - photography
Benny Green - liner notes
Norman Granz - producer

References

Allmusic review
Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 68. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 425. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
Happy Time at AllMusic

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Studio albums	Rockin' Chair (1951–52) Dale's Wail (1953) Little Jazz (1954) Roy and Diz (1954) Roy's Got Rhythm (1955) Urbane Jazz (1955) Oscar Peterson and Roy Eldridge (1974) The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner (1974) Happy Time (1975) Jazz Maturity...Where It's Coming From (1975) Oscar Peterson and the Trumpet Kings – Jousts (1975)
Compilation albums	Heckler's Hop (1995)
Live albums	Hawkins! Eldridge! Hodges! Alive! At the Village Gate! (with Coleman Hawkins and Johnny Hodges (1962) The Trumpet Kings at Montreux '75 (with Dizzy Gillespie and Clark Terry) (1975) Montreux 1977 (with Oscar Peterson, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Bobby Durham (1977)

Oscar Peterson

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release. Note: All-Star albums feature sideman who are not necessarily listed while titles which include "Oscar Peterson" or the OP Trio are usually shortened.

As
leader
or
co-leader

Plays series	Duke Ellington (1952) George Gershwin (1952) Harold Arlen (1954) Count Basie (1955)
1955–58	In a Romantic Mood (with Russ Garcia, 1955) At the Stratford Shakespearean Festival (1956) At the Concertgebouw (1957) Soft Sands (with Buddy Bregman, 1957) Trio with Sonny Stitt, Roy Eldridge and Jo Jones at Newport (1957) My Fair Lady (1958) On the Town (1958) A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra (1959) The Jazz Soul (1959) Swinging Brass (with Russ Garcia, 1959) Fiorello! (1960)
Plays the Songbook (1959)	Cole Porter Duke Ellington George Gershwin Harold Arlen Jerome Kern Richard Rodgers Porgy & Bess
The London House Sessions (1961)	Put On a Happy Face Something Warm The Sound of the Trio The Trio (Verve)
Trio & Guests	Very Tall (with Milt Jackson, 1961) Affinity (1962) Bursting Out with the All-Star Big Band! (1962) Night Train (1962) West Side Story (1962) And Nelson Riddle (1963) Canadiana Suite (1964) Plays (1964) + One (with Clark Terry, 1964) We Get Requests (1964) Eloquence (1965) I/We Had a Ball (multiple groups, 1965) With Respect to Nat (1965) Blues Etude (1966) Soul Español (1966) The Greatest Jazz Concert in the World (multiple groups, 1967)
Exclusively for My Friends	Action (1963–64) Girl Talk (1965–68) The Way I Really Play (1967) The Lost Tapes (1967–68) Mellow Mood (1968) My Favorite Instrument (1968) Travelin' On (1968)
1969–79	Hello Herbie (1969) Motions and Emotions (with Claus Ogerman, 1969) Another Day (1970) Tracks (1970) Tristeza on Piano (1970) Walking the Line (1970) Great Connection (1971) In Tune (and The Singers Unlimited, 1971) Reunion Blues (and Milt Jackson, 1971) In Tokyo (1972) Solo (1972) The History of an Artist, Vol. 1 (1972) The History of an Artist, Vol. 2 (1972) The trio (Pablo, 1973) In Russia (1974) The Giants (1974) The Good Life (1974) Oscar Peterson et Joe Pass à Salle Pleyel (1975) Porgy and Bess (and Joe Pass, 1975) The Oscar Peterson Big 6 at Montreux (1975) The Tenor Giants (and Zoot Sims and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1975) And the Bassists – Montreux '77 (and Ray Brown & Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, 1977) Jam – Montreux '77 (1977) The London Concert (1978) The Paris Concert (1978) Digital at Montreux (1979) Night Child (1979) Skol (with Stéphane Grappelli, 1979)
With The Trumpet Kings	Roy Eldridge (1974) Dizzy Gillespie (1974) Jousts (1974) Harry Edison (1974) Clark Terry (1975) Jon Faddis (1975) At Montreux '75 (Eldridge, Gillespie & Terry, 1975) The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (with Gillespie, Hubbard & Terry, 1980) The Alternate Blues (with Gillespie, Hubbard & Terry, 1980)
1980–2004	Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 1980 (1980) The Personal Touch (1980) A Royal Wedding Suite (1981) Nigerian Marketplace (1981) Face to Face (with Freddie Hubbard, 1982) Freedom Song (1982) A Tribute to My Friends (1983) If You Could See Me Now (1983) Jazz at the Philharmonic – Yoyogi National Stadium, Tokyo 1983: Return to Happiness (multiple groups, 1983) Two of the Few (with Milt Jackson, 1983) Live! (1986) Time After Time (1986) Live at the Blue Note (1990) Saturday Night at the Blue Note (1991) Last Call at the Blue Note (1992) Encore at the Blue Note (1993) Side by Side (with Itzhak Perlman, 1994) The More I See You (1995) An Oscar Peterson Christmas (1995) A Tribute to Oscar Peterson – Live at the Town Hall (1996) Oscar in Paris (1996) Meets Roy Hargrove and Ralph Moore (1996) Oscar and Benny (with Benny Green, 1998) Summer Night in Munich (1998) Trail of Dreams: A Canadian Suite (2000) A Night in Vienna (2004)