Patented by Edison is a 1960 jazz album by American jazz trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison and the Harry "Sweets" Edison Quintet.

The album, recorded in New York City

New York City

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 on February 12, 1960 (the recording date is in fact posted on the album cover) and first issued on the Roulette Records

Roulette Records

Roulette Records is an American record label, which was founded in late 1956, by George Goldner, Joe Kolsky, Morris Levy and Phil Khals, with creative control given to producers and songwriters Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore. Levy was appointed as director...

 label under catalog number SR 52041, features mostly standards from the likes of George Gershwin

George Gershwin

George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...

, Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin

Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...

 and Count Basie

Count Basie

William "Count" Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. Basie led his jazz orchestra almost continuously for nearly 50 years...

, for whom Edison played trumpet. Teddy Reig is credited as the producer.

Track Listing

1. "Witchcraft
   Witchcraft (song)
   "Witchcraft" is a popular song from 1957 composed by Cy Coleman with lyrics by Carolyn Leigh. It was released as a single by Frank Sinatra, and reached number twenty in the U.S., spending sixteen weeks on the charts....
   
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2. "Blue Skies
   Blue Skies (song)
   -History:The song was composed in 1926 as a last minute addition to the Rodgers and Hart musical, Betsy. Although the show only ran for 39 performances, "Blue Skies" was an instant success, with audiences on opening night demanding 24 encores of the piece from star, Belle Baker. During the final...
   
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3. "I'm Confessin' That I Love You"
4. "Ain't Misbehavin'
   Ain't Misbehavin' (song)
   "Ain't Misbehavin" is a 1929 song written by Thomas "Fats" Waller, Harry Brooks and Andy Razaf . Waller recorded the original version that year for Victor Records and also later performed the song in the 1943 film Stormy Weather. It was used in the off-broadway musical Connie's Hot Chocolates...
   
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5. "Candied Sweets"
6. "They Can't Take That Away From Me
   They Can't Take That Away from Me
   "They Can't Take That Away from Me" is a 1937 song written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin and introduced by Fred Astaire in the 1937 film Shall We Dance....
   
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7. "Tea For Two
   Tea for Two (song)
   "Tea for Two" is a song from the 1925 musical No, No, Nanette with music by Vincent Youmans and lyrics by Irving Caesar. It is a duet sung by Nanette and Tom in Act II as they imagine their future.-Analysis:...
   
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8. "There Is No Greater Love
   There Is No Greater Love
   "There Is No Greater Love" is a 1936 jazz standard composed by Isham Jones, with lyrics by Marty Symes. It was the last hit song for Jones's orchestra before the bandleader turned the orchestra over to Woody Herman, beginning the latter's 50 year career as a bandleader.The song is often played as a...
   
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9. "Twenty-Forty"
10. "It's Easy To Remember"
11. "Sweetcakes"
12. "Angel Eyes"
13. "Centerpiece"
14. "Candy"
15. "Jive at Five"
16. "Imagination"
17. "Louisiana"
18. "Harriet"
19. "It Happened in Monterey"
20. "If I Had You"
21. "Paradise"
22. "Indiana"
23. "Pussy Willow"
24. "Sweetenings"

Musicians

• Harry "Sweets" Edison - trumpet
• Kenny Drew
  Kenny Drew
  Kenneth Sidney "Kenny" Drew was an American jazz pianist.-Biography:Born in New York City, New York, he first recorded with Howard McGhee in 1949, and over the next two years recorded with Buddy DeFranco, Coleman Hawkins, Milt Jackson, Charlie Parker, Buddy Rich, and Dinah Washington...
  
  , Tommy Flanagan
  Tommy Flanagan
  Thomas Lee Flanagan was an American jazz pianist born in Detroit, Michigan, particularly remembered for his work with Ella Fitzgerald...
  
  , Jimmy Jones
  Jimmy Jones (pianist)
  James Henry "Jimmy" Jones was an American jazz pianist and arranger.-Biography:...
  
   - piano
• Elvin Jones
  Elvin Jones
  Elvin Ray Jones was a jazz drummer of the post-bop era. He showed interest in drums at a young age, watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac, Michigan....
  
  , Charlie Persip
  Charlie Persip
  Charli Persip , is an American jazz drummer. Born in Morristown, New Jersey as Charles Lawrence Persip, he changed his name to Charli Persip in the early 1980s.-Biography:...
  
   - drums
• Jimmy Forrest
  Jimmy Forrest
  Jimmy Forrest was an African American jazz musician, who played tenor saxophone throughout his career....
  
   - tenor saxophone
• Tommy Potter
  Tommy Potter
  Charles Thomas Potter, born in Philadelphia on September 21, 1918, died March 1, 1988, was a jazz double bass player.Potter is known for having been a member of Charlie Parker's "classic quintet", with Miles Davis, between 1947 and 1950; he had first played with Parker in 1944, in Billy Eckstine's...
  
  , Joe Benjamin
  Joe Benjamin
  Joseph Rupert "Joe" Benjamin was an American jazz bassist.Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Benjamin played with numerous high-profile jazz musicians in a variety of idioms...
  
  , John Simmons
  John Simmons (musician)
  John Simmons was an American jazz bassist.Simmons played trumpet at first, but a sports injury prevented him from continuing on the instrument. He picked up bass instead, landing his first professional gigs a mere four months after starting on the instrument...
  
  - bass