Harry “Sweets” Edison

trumpet, performing orchestra, flugelhorn, vocal, arranger, performer

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Top collaborators

Artist name Roles Recordings
Count Basie
Frank Sinatra
Count Basie & His Orchestra
Ella Fitzgerald
Billie Holiday

Collaborators on this artist's recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Sonny Lester producer Black Orpheus, Keester Parade, Ode to Billy Joe, Seven Eleven, The Shadow of Your Smile
Jerome Richardson saxophone Black Orpheus, Keester Parade, Ode to Billy Joe, Seven Eleven, The Shadow of Your Smile
Charles Isaacs bass Black Orpheus, Keester Parade, Ode to Billy Joe, Seven Eleven, The Shadow of Your Smile
Charles "Dolo" Coker piano Black Orpheus, Keester Parade, Ode to Billy Joe, Seven Eleven, The Shadow of Your Smile
Earl Palmer drums Keester Parade, Ode to Billy Joe, Seven Eleven, The Shadow of Your Smile
Paul Humphrey drums Black Orpheus

Work on other artists' recordings

Artist name Roles Recordings
Count Basie arranger, trumpet 7th Avenue Express, After You've Gone, Ain't It the Truth, Avenue C, B-flat Blues, Bill's Mill, Blame It on My Last Affair, Blame It on My Last Affair (1st take), Blame It on My Last Affair (2nd take), Blow Top, Blue and Sentimental, Brand New Wagon, Broadway, Bye Bye Baby, Cherokee, Part 1, Cherokee, Part 2, Cherokee, Parts 1 & 2, Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie, Dance of the Gremlins, Dark Rapture, Do You Wanna Jump, Children?, Doggin' Around, Down for Double, Easy Does It, Every Tub, Evil Blues, Feather Merchant, Fiesta in Blue, G.I. Stomp (Red Bank Boogie), Gone With "What" Wind, Harvard Blues, Hey, Pretty Baby, High Tide, I Left My Baby, I Never Knew, I Want a Little Girl, If You See My Baby, It's Sand Man!, Jive at Five, Jump for Me, Jumpin' at the Woodside, Just a Minute, Lady Be Good, Lazy Lady Blues, Let Me See, London Bridge Is Falling Down, Louisiana, Love Jumped Out, Mama Don't Want No Peas 'N' Rice 'N' Coconut Oil, Miss Thing, Parts 1 & 2, Moten Swing, Mr. Roberts' Roost, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, Now Will You Be Good, Oh, Lady Be Good, One O'Clock Boogie, Panassie Stomp, Pannasie Stomp, Pound Cake, Queer Street, Rambo, Rhythm Man, Rock-a-bye Basie, Rockin' the Blues, San Jose, Sent for You Yesterday, Sent for You Yesterday (And Here You Come Today), Shorty George, Sing for Your Supper, Something New, Stay Cool, Stop Beatin' Around the Mulberry Bush [1st take], Stop Beatin' Around the Mulberry Bush [2nd take], Super Chief, Sweets, Swingin' the Blues, Swinging the Blues, Taps Miller, Taxi War Dance, Texas Shuffle, The Blues I Like to Hear, The Jitters, The King, The Mad Boogie, Thursday, Tickle Toe, Tickle-toe, Tippin', on the Q.T., Tuesday at Ten, Volcano, Yeah Man!
Frank Sinatra performing orchestra, trumpet (How Little It Matters) How Little We Know, (Love Is) The Tender Trap, All of Me, Always, Anything Goes, At Long Last Love, Blue Moon, Can I Steal a Little Love, Can’t We Be Friends?, Chicago, Dancing on the Ceiling, Deep in a Dream, Everybody Loves Somebody, From Here to Eternity, From This Moment On, Get Happy, Glad to Be Unhappy, Hidden Persuasion, How About You?, I Can’t Believe that You’re in Love With Me, I Can’t Get Started, I Concentrate on You, I Get Along Without You Very Well, I Got It Bad and That Ain’t Good, I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’, I Guess I’ll Have to Change My Plans, I Love Paris, I See Your Face Before Me, I Thought About You, I Wish I Were in Love Again, I Won’t Dance, If I Had You, Ill Wind, In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning, It All Depends on You, It Happened in Monterey, It Never Entered My Mind, It’s Only a Paper Moon, I’ll Be Around, I’ll Never Be the Same, I’ll Never Smile Again, I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter, I’ve Got You Under My Skin, I’ve Got the World on a String, Jeepers Creepers, Just One of Those Things, Last Night When We Were Young, Laura, Learnin’ the Blues, Lonesome Road, Love Is Here to Stay, Makin’ Whoopee, Mood Indigo, My Blue Heaven, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Night and Day, No One Ever Tells You, Oh! Look at Me Now, Ol' MacDonald, Old Devil Moon, Pennies From Heaven, River, Stay ’way From My Door, September in the Rain, Should I, So Long, My Love, Stars Fell on Alabama, Stormy Weather, Sunday, Swingin’ Down the Lane, S’posin’, Taking a Chance on Love, Talk to Me, The Gal That Got Away, This Love of Mine, Too Marvelous for Words, We’ll Be Together Again, What Is This Thing Called Love?, When Your Lover Has Gone, When You’re Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You), Witchcraft, Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams, You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me, You Do Something to Me, You Make Me Feel So Young, Young at Heart, You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To, You’ll Get Yours, You’re Getting to Be a Habit With Me
Count Basie & His Orchestra trumpet A Fine Romance (From "Swing Time"), A Foggy Day (From "A Damsel in Distress"), Carioca (From "Flying Down to Rio"), Clap Hands! Here Comes Charlie!, Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie, Darktown Strutters Ball, Days of Wine and Roses, Doggin' Around, Don't Worry 'Bout Me, Every Tub, Harvard Blues, Haven't Changed a Thing, Hurry Sundown Blues (From "Hurry Sundown"), I Left My Baby, In the Still of the Night (From "Rosalie"), Indiana (#1), Indiana (#2) (Incomplete), It Might As Well Be Spring (From "State Fair"), John's Idea (Incomplete), Jump for Me, King Porter Stomp, Laura (From "Laura"), Lousiana, Love of My Life, Moten Swing, Nagasaki, One O'Clock Jump, One O'Clock Jump (Closing Theme), One O'Clock Jump (Opening Theme), One O’Clock Jump, Out the Window, Panassie Stomp, Rambo, Rock-A-Bye Basie, Roseland Shuffle, Secret Love (From "Calamity Jane"), Shorty George, Strangers in the Night (From "A Man Who Could Get Killed"), Swingin' the Blues, Swingin’ the Blues, Taxi War Dance, That Rhythm Man, The Shadow Of Your Smile, The Trolley Song (From "Meet Me in St. Louis"), Tickle Toe, Time Out, Twelfth Street Rag, Wo-Ta-Ta, Yeah Man!
Ella Fitzgerald trumpet 'Round Midnight, (I Don't Stand) A Ghost of a Chance With You, All That Jazz, Baby, Don't You Quit Now, Candy / All I Do Is Dream of You / Spring Is Here / 720 In the Books / It Happened in Monterey / What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry, Fine and Mellow, Four or Five Times / Maybe / Taking a Chance on Love / Elmer's Tune / At Sundown / It's a Wonderful World, Hawaiian War Chant, I Can't Give You Anything but Love, I'm Just a Lucky So and So, I'm in the Mood for Love, If I Gave My Heart to You / Once in a While / Ebb Tide / The Lamp Is Low / Where Are You / Thinking of You, My Last Affair, My Mother's Eyes / Try a Little Tenderness / I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) / Everything I Have Is Yours / I Never Knew (I Could Love Anybody Like I'm Loving You) / Goodnight, My Love, No Regrets / I've Got a Feeling You're Fooling / Don't Blame Me / Deep Purple / Rain / You're a Sweetheart, On Green Dolphin Street / How Am I to Know / Just Friends / I Cried for You / Seems Like Old Times / You Stepped Out of a Dream, Polka Dots and Moonbeams, Rockin' in Rhythm, The Jersey Bounce, The Man I Love, The Nearness of You
Billie Holiday trumpet A Foggy Day, April in Paris, Body and Soul, But Not for Me, Comes Love, Comes Love (alternate), Darn That Dream, Day in Day Out, Didn't Know What Time It Was, Embraceable You, Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You?, Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good), Just Friends (instrumental), Just One of Those Things, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off, Love Is Here to Stay, One for My Baby (And One More for the Road), Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone, Say It Isn't So, Stars Fell on Alabama, They Can't Take That Away From Me
Herb Ellis trumpet A Simple Tune, After You've Gone, Detour Ahead, Easter Parade, Edison Lights, Ellis Original, Ellis in Wonderland, Fatty McSlatty, Flintstones II, Green Dolphin Street, Have You Met Miss Jones?, Homegrown, Inka-Dinka-Doo, It Could Happen to You, Mitch's Lament, Mood Indigo, Pogo, Soft Shoe, Somebody Loves Me, Sweetheart Blues, The Flintstones Theme
Buddy Rich trumpet 9:20 Special, Ain't It the Truth, Blue and Sentimental, Blues for Basie, Cherokee, Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie, Down for Double, From the Sticks, I Want a Little Girl, Indiana (Back Home Again in Indiana), Jump for Me, Jumpin' at the Woodside, Richcraft, Shorty George, Song of the Islands, Sweets Tooth, Yardbird Suite
Racky Thomas trumpet Angel Eyes, Blues Walk, C Jam Blues, Candy, Dirty Butt Blues, Feelings, Lax, Lester Leaps In, Miz Kitty's Blues, My Ideal, Opus Funk, Robbin's Nest, September Song, Simply Sweets, Spotlite, There Is No Greater Love, You Are Too Beautiful
Quincy Jones performer, trumpet A Change of Pace, After Hours, Blues in the Night, Choo Choo Ch'Boogie, Happy Faces, Happy Faces (alternate take), Marchin' the Blues, Moanin', Moanin' (alternate version), Syncopated Clock, The Birth of a Band, The Hucklebuck, The Midnight Sun Will Never Set, The Preacher, Tuxedo Junction
Sarah Vaughan trumpet Ain't No Use, Every Time I See You, Gloomy Sunday, I'll Be Seeing You, I'm Gonna Laugh You Out of My Life, Moon Over Miami, Somebody Else's Dream, Star Eyes, Stormy Weather, The More I See You, Trees, Trouble Is a Man, What Do You See in Her?, When Your Lover Has Gone
Kyam trumpet A Fine Romance, A Foggy Day, Carioca, Days of Wine and Roses, Hurry Sundown Blues, In the Still of the Night, It Might as Well Be Spring, Laura, Secret Love, Strangers in the Night, The Shadow of Your Smile, The Trolley Song
Bing Crosby trumpet 'Deed I Do, Blue Room, Cheek to Cheek, Have You Met Miss Jones?, Heat Wave, I've Got Five Dollars, Jeepers Creepers, Mountain Greenery, Nice Work If You Can Get It, September in the Rain, The Song Is You, They All Laughed
Lurlean Hunter trumpet As Long as I Live, Blue & Sentimental, Blue Turning Grey over You, Crazy He Calls Me, Fool That I Am, If You Could See Me Now, Just Imagine, My Kinda Love, The Song Is You, Then I'll Be Tired of You, We'll Be Together Again
Frank Wess & Harry Edison Orchestra trumpet All Riled Up, Battle Royal, Blue on Blue, Dejection Blues, I Wish I Knew, Jumpin' At The Woodside, Li'l Darlin', One O'Clock Jump, The Very Thought Of You, This Is All I Ask, Whirly Bird
The Art Tatum Sextet trumpet Deep Purple, Plaid, September Song, September Song (78 rpm version), September Song (trio version), Somebody Loves Me, Trio Blues, Verve Blues, What Is This Thing Called Love (trio version), What Is This Thing Called Love?, What Is This Thing Called Love? (alternate version)
Barney Kessel trumpet (Back Home Again in) Indiana, Begin the Blues, Contemporary Blues, Don't Blame Me, Embraceable You, Happy Feeling, Louisiana, Midnight Sun, Moten Swing, Twelfth Street Rag, Wail Street
Jerad Lippi trumpet Blues Around the Clock, Cherry Red, Flip, Flop, and Fly, Good Mornin' Blues, Honey Hush, Night Time Is the Right Time, Roll 'em Pete, Since I Fell for You, The Honeydripper, Wee Baby Blues
Félix Bronchalo trumpet Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words), Hello, Dolly!, I Believe in You, I Can't Stop Loving You, I Wanna Be Around, I Wish You Love, More (Theme From 'Mondo Cane'), The Best Is Yet to Come, The Good Life, Wives and Lovers
N-Pire The Great trumpet Basie, Days of Wine and Roses, Easy Living, Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You, Man I Love, The, Mean to Me, Signify, Willow Weep for Me, You Go to My Head
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross trumpet Bijou, Centerpiece, Charleston Alley, Cloudburst, Everybody's Boppin', Gimme That Wine, Moanin', Sermonette, Summertime
Tomoko Makuuchi trumpet A Gal in Calico, Broadway, Close Your Eyes, Four, I've Got a Crush on You, Jawbreakers, Moolah, Oo-Ee!
Paper Castles trumpet Angel City, Be's That Way, Big Sur, Groovin' High, Love Theme From "The Sandpiper", Man from Monterey, Moontide, Things Are Here
Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra trumpet All or Nothing at All, Cheek to Cheek, Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me, I Wished on the Moon, Moonlight in Vermont, Sophisticated Lady, Speak Low, We’ll Be Together Again
Budd Johnson trumpet All My Love, Blue Lou, Blues for Lester (Memories of Lester Young, Part I), Don't Blame Me, Driftwood, I'll Get By, The Message (Memories of Lester Young, Part II, Trinity River Bottom
Louie Bellson trumpet Back on the Scene, Cottontail, Nails, No More Blues, Serenade in Blues, Softly With Feeling, The Little Pixie, Thunderbird
Shorty Rogers trumpet Astral Alley, Blues Way Down There, Blues Way Up There, Dickie’s Dream, Moten Swing, Pixieland, Serenade in Sweets
Device trumpet Ballad Medley: The Very Thought of You / I Want a Little Girl / Blue & Sentimental, Gypsy in My Soul, Mean to Me, Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone, Romping, Salute to Benny, They Can't Take That Away From Me
Milt Jackson trumpet A Matter of Adjustment, Blues for Clyde, Blues in My Heart, D.B. Blues, Double B, Night Mist Blues, Other Bag Blues
Karl Gottfried Ritter von Leitner trumpet Broadway, Everything Happens to Me, Satin Doll, Slooow Drag, Stuffy, This One's for Jaws, What's New
Karl Liebl flugelhorn, trumpet A Sound for Sore Ears, Braddock Breakdown, Oh Happy Day, One Mint Julep (One Way), One Mint Julep (The Other Way), Picking Up the Vibrations, Uh-Huh
Bob Brookmeyer trumpet Ain't Misbehavin', Bee Kay, King Porter Stomp, Now Will You be Good, Pennies from Heaven, Stretching Out
When The Clock Strikes trumpet A Smooth One (alternate take), Groovin' Wailin', Keester Parade, TNT, What Am I Here For?
The Nat King Cole Trio trumpet (Get Your Kicks On) Route 66, Candy, It’s Only a Paper Moon, Sweet Lorraine, You Can Depend on Me
The Plastic Eulogy trumpet Ballade: Lush Life / Lullaby of the Leaves / Makin' Whoopee / It Never Entered My Mind, Candy, Chocolate Sundae, When Your Lover Has Gone, Woody'n You
Dianne Reeves trumpet Ha!, Let Me Love You, Old Country, Tenderly
Dan Horne trumpet At Home With the Sweets, Blues Express, Pay the Piper, Pink Squrrel
Clifford Coulter trumpet Before the Morning Comes, Do It Now, Worry About It Later
Maria Muldaur trumpet It Ain’t the Meat It’s the Motion, Squeeze Me
Synopsis trumpet If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight), Old Fashioned Love
Willie B. Harris vocal Free Eats, Open the Door, Richard
Bike Cops trumpet Blues, Mean and Evil World
Tiny trumpet Metronome All-Out
Lester Young trumpet Tickle Toe
My Buddy Dix vocal Open the Door, Richard!
LaVern Baker trumpet Jim Dandy Got Married
Dai Robs trumpet One for the Count
Soozie Sundlun trumpet Blues With Lips
黒金寛行 trumpet Twisted
Om Bikram Bista & Renu Thapa trumpet Don't You Miss Your Baby?
Charlie Parker trumpet Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite (Cancion / Mambo, Part 1 / Mambo, Part 2 / 6/8 / Jazz / Rhumba Abierta)
Jimmy Giuffre trumpet Down Home
Harry Belafonte trumpet Eden Was Just Like This
18h15 trumpet Oh, Lady Be Good