Sonny Cohn

American jazz trumpeter, born March 14, 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, died November 7, 2006 in the same city.

Played 1945-1959 with [a=Red Saunders], joined [a=Count Basie] in 1960, soon becoming a mainstay of the band's trumpet section, staying until Basie's death in 1984.