Jazzman dies at 78
NZPA-Reuter New York Roy Eldridge, one of the century’s great innovators on the trumpet, died on Monday, apparently of complications related to grief over the death of his wife, a hospital official said. He was 78. Eldridge was admitted to Franklin County Hospital in Valley Stream, New York, on February 18, two weeks after the death of his wife, lola, a hospital spokesman said. “It looks like he took 1 i
(his wife’s death) very hard 7 and stopped eating and drinking,” the spokesman said. The jazz musician died of apparent cardiac arrest related to dehydration, he quoted Eldridge’s doctor as saying. Eldridge became nationally prominent in the early 1940 s as the featured trumpeter of Gene Krupa’s band, becoming the first black to be accepted as a permanent member of the brass section of a white band. I.
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