Eddie Rosner | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Adolph Ignatievich Rosner |
Born | Berlin, German Empire | 26 May 1910
Died | 8 August 1976 West Berlin, West Germany | (aged 66)
Genres | Jazz |
Occupation | Musician |
Instrument | Trumpet |
Years active | 1930s–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.