Heckler's Hop is a 1995 compilation album collecting work from the mid- to late-1930s by jazz trumpet-player Roy Eldridge.

[3] In October 1935, Eldridge joined Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra, playing lead trumpet and occasionally singing before, in early September 1936, he moved to Chicago to form an octet with older brother Joe Eldridge playing saxophone and arranging.

[1] Fed up with the racism he had encountered in the music industry, Eldridge quit playing in 1938 to study radio engineering, but was soon back to performing, forming a ten-piece band in 1939 that he set up at New York's Arcadia Ballroom.

[2] 2000's Jazz 101, putting forth the album as a good sampler of Eldridge's early years, focuses on the version of jazz standard "After You've Gone", describing it as a "tour de force, full of diving and leaping, careening and careering, with notes dropped, some left hanging on the ledge of the rhythm section.

"[4] Jazz biographer Donald Maggin agrees that "After You've Gone" is a "masterpiece" but adds that the title track "comes close.