Johnny Cowell

Johnny Cowell (11 January 1926 in Tillsonburg, Ontario – 22 January 2018) was a Canadian trumpeter, composer and arranger.

Early life Cowell's father and three uncles were members of the Tillsonburg Town Band, and Cowell played his first trumpet solo with this band at age six.

Cowell was largely self-taught but after joining the Toronto Symphony Band he studied briefly with Edward Smeale in Toronto. that Bill Pursell later arranged for piano in a No. 9 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, in addition to hitting No. 4 on the Easy Listening chart, and No. 20 on the Hot R&B Singles chart in the Spring of 1963.

Private life Cowell married his wife Joan on 26 September 1953. They met six years earlier when he began playing trumpet for the dance band in which Joan was the vocalist. Cowell and his wife have a daughter, Marcie and three grandchildren.

Discography Cowell has released more than 10 LPs and CDs. 1997 - The Art of Johnny Cowell