He didn`t play a lot of notes, but the ones he did were never less than beguiling. That trumpeter Harry ”Sweets” Edison played an intimate jazz room Tuesday night was noteworthy in itself, for Edison ...

Trumpeter Harry “Sweets" Edison is perhaps best known for providing chrome-tinged obbligatos behind jazz-pop singers. His muted trumpet can be heard playing tightly wound touches on the albums of ...

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For My Pals (Harry Sweets Edison; Pablo Records). Since playing those searing solos in Count Basie`s 1938 ”Every Tub” and ”Panassie Stomp,” Harry Sweets Edison has been among the most-recorded ...

Over the course of a long stay with the original Count Basie band, and throughout an even lengthier solo career, Harry "Sweets" Edison cultivated an inimitable sound as a trumpet soloist and ...

This 1997 image of Harry “Sweets" Edison by photographer Paul Slaughter is a study in contrasts. The creases in Edison's eyes are piercing yet seductive. His smile is broad but also slightly pained.

Known as a premier accompanist to singers and a masterful soloist, the inimitable trumpeter cultivated a spare yet bluesy approach. His career... Harry 'Sweets' Edison: Simplicity In Swing Over the ...

Edison was in his heyday as trumpet of choice for Sinatra and Nelson Riddle when he made these late-1950s sessions with Ben Webster (tenor), Barney Kessel (guitar) and a Jimmy Rowles-Joe Mondrago- ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Harry "Sweets" Edison (October 10, 1915 – July 27, 1999) was an American jazz trumpeter and a member of the Count Basie Orchestra. His greatest impact was as a ...