Editing Harry Edison (section)

{{Short description|American jazz trumpeter (1915–1999)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name                = Harry Edison
| image               = Harry Edison.jpg
| image_size          = 
| landscape           = yes
| caption             = Edison in Paris, France, 1980
| background          = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_name          = 
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1915|10|10}}
| birth_place         = [[Columbus, Ohio]], U.S.
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1999|07|27|1915|10|10}}
| death_place         = Columbus, Ohio, U.S. 
| genre               = [[Jazz]], [[swing music|swing]]
| occupation          = Musician
| instrument          = Trumpet
| years_active        = 1933-1970s
| label               = [[Pacific Jazz Records|Pacific Jazz]], [[Verve Records|Verve]], [[Roulette Records|Roulette]], [[Riverside Records|Riverside]], [[Vee-Jay Records|Vee-Jay]], [[Liberty Records|Liberty]], [[Sue Records|Sue]], [[Black & Blue Records|Black & Blue]], [[Pablo Records|Pablo]], [[Storyville Records|Storyville]], [[Candid Records|Candid]]
| associated_acts     = [[Count Basie Orchestra]], [[Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis]], [[Ben Webster]], [[Ella Fitzgerald]], [[Frank Sinatra]], [[Lester Young]], [[Buddy Rich]], [[Oscar Peterson]]
}}

'''Harry''' "'''Sweets'''" '''Edison''' (October 10, 1915&nbsp;– July 27, 1999) was an American jazz [[Trumpet|trumpeter]] and a member of the [[Count Basie Orchestra]].<ref name="Larkin50">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Fifties Music]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=2002|edition=Third|isbn=1-85227-937-0|pages=117/8}}</ref> His most important contribution was as  a [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] [[studio musician]], whose muted trumpet can be heard backing singers, most notably [[Frank Sinatra]].