Cooper, Sid, 1918-2011

LC control no.	no2013072175
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Cooper, Sid, 1918-2011 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Cooper, Sidney, 1918-2011 Kupperman, Sidney, 1918-2011
Birth date	19181102
Death date	20110718
Place of birth	Montréal, Québec
Place of death	Lake Worth, Fla.
Field of activity	Music Jazz
Profession or occupation	Saxophonists Composers Arrangers (Musicians) Authors
Found in	Oliver, Sy. Minor goes a muggin', 1944 (Sid Cooper, alto saxophone) Ancestry.com WWW site, June 14, 2013 : Quebec, Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1621-1967 (Sidney Kupperman; birth year: 1918; birth location: Montréal, Québec; religion: Jewish; Place of worship or institution: Jewish Beth Issac) IMDb WWW site, June 11, 2013 (Sid Cooper: b. November 2, 1918 (Montreal, Canada); d. July 18, 2011 (Lake Worth, Fla.); Composer, saxophonist, songwriter ("Night is gone") and arranger; played with Henry Jerome, Tommy Dorsey (1944-1949), Ziggy Elman, Skitch Henderson, Sy Oliver and for other radio and television orchestras; member of NBC staff orchestra (1954-1959); joined ASCAP (1958); wrote "Piccolo polka", "Saxology", "Clarinet cascades", "Cooper Union" and "Eiffel Tower") New York Daily News WWW site, June 11, 2013 : In obituary dated July 20, 2011 (Sidney Cooper, musician and arranger who was part of Carson's "Tonight Show" band, dies at 92; plays alto saxophone, clarinet, flute and piccolo; member of the "Tonight Show" Orchestra (1950s-1972); toured with Frank Sinatra (1974); studio musician (Billie Holiday and Miles Davis); Broadway show musician ("42nd Street"); appeared in Woody Allen's films "Alice"(1990), "Bullets over Broadway" (1994) and "Everyone says I love you" (1996)) The Hollywood reporter WWW site, June 11, 2013 : In obituary dated July 19, 2011 (Sidney Cooper, Big Band and studio musician, dies at 92; son to New York furrier Isadore and Rosie Kupperman; author of 2008 memoir "It looked so good in the window"; wives Ethel (deceased) and Patricia; daughters Carole and Nancy)