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2 unusual facts about Harry Edison


Harry Edison

According to the Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies, Edison in the 1960s and 1970s continued to work in many orchestras on television shows, including Hollywood Palace and The Leslie Uggams Show, specials with Frank Sinatra; prominently featured on the sound track and in the sound track album of the film, Lady Sings the Blues.

Harry "Sweets" Edison (October 10, 1915 – July 27, 1999) was an American jazz trumpeter and member of the Count Basie Orchestra.


Memphis Jackson

Al Aarons (tracks 4, 5 & 8), John Audino (tracks 1-3 & 9), Bud Brisbois (tracks 6, 7 & 10), Buddy Childers (tracks 1-3 & 9), Harry Edison (tracks 1-3, 6, 7, 9 & 10), Ollie Mitchell (tracks 6, 7 & 10) - trumpet

Norman Granz

In 1944, Granz and Gjon Mili produced the jazz film Jammin' the Blues, which starred Lester Young, Illinois Jacquet, Barney Kessel, Harry Edison, Jo Jones, Sidney Catlett, Marlowe Morris, and Marie Bryant, and was nominated for an Academy Award.


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Hometown, My Town

Arnold Eidus, Julius Held, Max Hollander, Harry Lookofsky (#4-6), Harry Edison (#4-6, Leo Kruczek, Tosha Samoroff, H. Urbont, Maurice Wilk, Paul Winter, David Nadien (#2), Fred Buldrini (#2) - violin