Harry ``Sweets'' Edison, musician, 83

["Deathwatch Central" <cdw@slick.org>]

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Harry ``Sweets'' Edison, a jazz trumpeter who
accompanied singers such as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie
Holiday, died Tuesday. He was 83.

Edison joined the Count Basie Orchestra in the mid-1930s when he was 18
and became a featured soloist. Basie saxophonist Lester Young dubbed him
``Sweets'' because of the pleasing tone of his horn.

Edison stayed with Basie's big band until about 1950 before heading off to
perform with his own quintet. He recorded his own albums, notably ``Sweets
For The Sweet Taste Of Love,'' accompanied Sinatra as a studio musician
and worked with Benny Carter on movie sound tracks.

Over the years he played with most of the famous big bands, including
those of Buddy Rich, Quincy Jones, Louis Bellson, Henry Mancini and Nelson
Riddle.

Edison taught music seminars at Yale University in the Duke Ellington
Fellowship Program and he was honored as a ``master musician'' with a 1991
National Endowment for the Arts Award at the Kennedy Center.



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