Eddie Rosner

Eddie Rosner
Background information
Birth nameAdolph Ignatievich Rosner
Born(1910-05-26)26 May 1910
Berlin, German Empire
Died8 August 1976(1976-08-08) (aged 66)
West Berlin, West Germany
GenresJazz
OccupationMusician
InstrumentTrumpet
Years active1930s–1970s

Adolph Ignatievich Rosner, known professionally as Ady Rosner and Eddie Rosner (26 May 1910 – 8 August 1976) was a German, Polish, and Soviet jazz trumpeter sometimes called "The White Louis Armstrong" or "Polish Louis Armstrong".[citation needed] He was a prisoner in the Gulag when Joseph Stalin was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.