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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
| name = Sonny Cohn
| image = Sonny =Cohn.jpg
| caption =
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| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_name = George T.Thomas Cohn
| aliasbirth_place = [[Chicago, = Illinois]]
| birth_date alias = {{birthSonny date|1925|3|14}}Cohn
| death_date birth_date = {{deathbirth date and age|2006|11|7|1925|3|14}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|2006|11|7|1925|3|14}}<ref name=JAZZ/><ref name=DB>{{cite web|url=http://downbeat.com/news/detail/sonny-cohn-dies|title=Sonny Cohn Dies|date=14 November 2006|website=DownBeat Magazine|accessdate=26 June 2019}}</ref>
| origin =
| death_place = Chicago, Illinois
| instrument = [[Trumpet]]
| genre = [[Jazz]]
| occupation = Musician
| years_active = 1943–2003
| label = {{hlist|[[Savoy Records|Savoy]]|[[Sultan Records|Sultan]]|[[National Records|National]]}}
| associated_actspast_member_of = {{hlist|[[Red Saunders (musician)|Red Saunders]]<br/>|[[Count Basie]]|[[Charles Fowlkes]]|[[Bill Hughes (musician)|Bill Hughes]]|[[Grover Mitchell]]}}
| website =
| notable_instruments =
}}
'''George Thomas Cohn''' (March 14, 1925<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sonny-cohn-mn0000814838|title=Sonny Cohn - Biography & History|website=[[AllMusic]]|accessdate=26 June 2019}}</ref> &ndash; November 7, 2006),<ref name="clemson"/><ref name=DB/> known professionally as '''Sonny Cohn''', was an American [[jazz]] trumpeter whose career spanned over six decades. After working for fifteen years with [[Red Saunders (musician)|Red Saunders]] (1945–1960), Cohn went on to spend another twenty four years in [[Count Basie]]'s trumpet section (1960–1984).<ref name="clemson">{{cite web|url=http://campber.people.clemson.edu/johnson.html|title=The Eddie Johnson Discography|website=Campber.people.clemson.edu|accessdate=26 June 2019}}</ref>
 
==Life and career==
'''George T. "Sonny" Cohn''' (March 14, 1925<ref>[{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p65455|pure_url=yes}} Biography at allmusic]</ref> &ndash; November 7, 2006)<ref name="clemson"/> was an [[United States|American]] [[jazz]] [[trumpet]]er.
Cohn was born in Chicago, Illinois.<ref name=DB /> Cohn started playing in small groups around the city with [[King Fleming]] while he was still a teenager.<ref name="clemson2">[http://campber.people.clemson.edu/fleming.html Campbell, Robert L.; Pruter, Robert and Büttner, Armin "King Fleming Discography"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090521090518/http://campber.people.clemson.edu/fleming.html |date=2009-05-21 }}</ref> Cohn joined Red Saunders' group in 1945, while Saunders was out of the [[Club DeLisa]] and working with a sextet instead of his usual mid-sized band.
 
CohnAfter joinedhis Red Saunders' groupstint in 1945, while Saunders was out of the [[Club DeLisa]] and working with a sextet instead of his usual mid-sized band. Fresh out of military service, heCohn joined the Saunders group at the Capitol Lounge in Chicago; [[Leon Washington (musician)|Leon Washington]] had recommended him. HeCohn was featured on Saunders' first recordings as a leader, for [[Savoy Records|Savoy]], [[Sultan Records|Sultan]], and (behind [[Big Joe Turner]]) on [[National Records|National]]. HeCohn was heard on the records that Saunders made for [[OKeh Records]] (1951–1953)beginning andin 1951 through 1953. After those records, Cohn was on Saunders' recordings for [[Parrot Records (blues label)|Parrot]] and [[Blue Lake Records|Blue Lake]] in 1953 and 1954. Cohn survived several downsizings of the [[Red Saunders (1953–1954musician)|Red Saunders]] band, as well as the closure of the [[Club DeLisa]], but eventually accepted an offer from [[Count Basie]], with whom he worked from 1960 through 1984. After Basie's death, Cohn returned to Chicago, where he remained active as a musician for another two decades.▼
After working four fifteen years with [[Red Saunders (musician)|Red Saunders]] (1945–1960), he went on to spend another 24 years in [[Count Basie]]'s trumpet section (1960–1984).<ref name="clemson">[http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/johnson.html Campbell, Robert L.; Büttner, Armin and Smierciak, Yves François "Eddie Johnson discography"]</ref>
 
==Health and death==
==Biography==
Cohn underwent bypass surgery in 2003.<ref name=JAZZ/> Cohn died on November 7, 2006, in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois at the age of 81.<ref name=DB/><ref name="Dead">{{cite web|url=http://thedeadrockstarsclub.com/2006b.html?keepThis=true&TB_iframe=true|title=The Dead Rock Stars Club 2006 July to December|website=Thedeadrockstarsclub.com|accessdate=26 June 2019}}</ref><ref name=JAZZ>{{cite web|url=https://jazztimes.com/archives/trumpeter-sonny-cohn-dies-at-81/|title=Trumpeter Sonny Cohn Dies at 81|first=Scott|last=Verrastro|website=Jazztimes.com|accessdate=26 June 2019}}</ref> His funeral was held on November 11, 2006, and he was buried at [[Burr Oak Cemetery]] in Alsip, Illinois.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.allaboutjazz.com/sonny-cohn-funeral-information.php |title=Sonny Cohn Funeral Information |website=news.allaboutjazz.com |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151005023919/http://news.allaboutjazz.com/sonny-cohn-funeral-information.php |archive-date=5 October 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
Cohn started playing in small groups in Chicago with [[King Fleming]] while still a teenager.<ref name="clemson2">[http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/fleming.html Campbell, Robert L.; Pruter, Robert and Büttner, Armin "King Fleming Discography"]</ref>
 
▲Cohn joined Red Saunders' group in 1945, while Saunders was out of the [[Club DeLisa]] and working with a sextet instead of his usual mid-sized band. Fresh out of military service, he joined the Saunders group at the Capitol Lounge in Chicago; [[Leon Washington (musician)|Leon Washington]] had recommended him. He was featured on Saunders' first recordings as a leader, for [[Savoy Records|Savoy]], [[Sultan Records|Sultan]], and (behind [[Big Joe Turner]]) on [[National Records|National]]. He was heard on the records that Saunders made for [[OKeh Records]] (1951–1953) and for [[Parrot Records (blues label)|Parrot]] and [[Blue Lake Records|Blue Lake]] (1953–1954).
 
Sonny Cohn survived several downsizings of the [[Red Saunders]] band, as well as the closure of the [[Club DeLisa]], but eventually accepted an offer from [[Count Basie]], with whom he worked from 1960 through 1984. After Basie's death, Cohn returned to Chicago, where he remained active as a musician for another two decades.
 
Cohn died in November 2006 in his home town of Chicago, at the age of 81.<ref name="Dead">[http://thedeadrockstarsclub.com/2006b.html?keepThis=true&TB_iframe=true Thedeadrockstarsclub.com] - accessed July 2010</ref>
==Discography==
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'''With [[Count Basie]]'''
*''[[Not Now, I'll Tell You When]]'' (Roulette, 1960)
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*''[[Sinatra at the Sands]]'' (Reprise, 1966) with [[Frank Sinatra]]
*''[[Basie's Beatle Bag]]'' (Verve, 1966)
*''[[Broadway Basie's...Way]]'' (Command, 1966)
*''[[Hollywood...Basie's Way]]'' (Command, 1967)
*''[[Basie's Beat]]'' (Verve, 1967)
*''[[Basie's in the Bag]]'' (Brunswick, 1967)
*''[[The Happiest Millionaire (album)|The Happiest Millionaire]]'' (Coliseum, 1967)
*''[[Manufacturers of Soul]]'' (Brunswick, 1968) with [[Jackie Wilson]]
*''[[The Board of Directors Annual Report]]'' (Dot, 1968) with The Mills Brothers
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*''[[Standing Ovation (Count Basie album)|Standing Ovation]]'' (Dot, 1969)
*''[[Basic Basie]]'' (MPS, 1969)
*''[[Basie on the Beatles]]'' (Happy Tiger, 1969)
*''[[High Voltage (Count Basie album)|High Voltage]]'' (MPS, 1970)
*''[[Me and You (Count Basie album)|Me and You]]'' (Pablo, 1983)
 
'''With [[Jodie Christian]]'''
*''[[Front Line (album)|Front Line]]'' (Delmark, 1996)
 
'''With [[Duke Jordan]]'''
*''[[Les Liaisons Dangereuses]]'' (Vogue, 1962)
 
'''With [[James Moody (saxophonist)|James Moody]]'''
*''[[Last Train from Overbrook]]'' (Argo, 1958)
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| NAME =Cohn, Sonny
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = American musician
| DATE OF BIRTH =March 14, 1925
| PLACE OF BIRTH =
| DATE OF DEATH =November 7, 2006
| PLACE OF DEATH =
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[[Category:African-American musicians]]
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[[Category:Musicians from Chicago, Illinois]]
[[Category:Jazz musicians from Illinois]]
[[Category:American male jazz musicians]]
[[Category:20th-century American male musicians]]
[[Category:Burials at Burr Oak Cemetery]]
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