Eighteen Jazz Musicians Nicknamed 'Sonny' (Or The Like)

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Sonny Rollins plays the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 2011.

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In the order I thought of them and/or looked them up on the Internet.

1. Theodore "Sonny" Rollins, saxophonist*
2. Conrad Yeatis "Sonny" Clark, pianist
3. Sun Ra, aka Le Sony'r Ra, aka Herman Poole "Sonny" Blount, pianist/composer
4. Frank "Sonny" Dallas, bassist
5. Warren Harding "Sonny" Sharrock, guitarist
6. James Marcellus Arthur "Sunny" Murray, drummer*
7. Huey "Sonny" Simmons, saxophonist*
8. Edward "Sonny" Stitt, saxophonist
9. William "Sonny" Criss, saxophonist
10. Cornelius "Sonny" Fortune, saxophonist/flutist*
11. Sonny Red, aka Sylvester Kyner Jr., saxophonist
12. Saul "Sonny" Berman, trumpeter
13. William Alexander "Sonny" Greer, drummer
14. Percival "Sonny" Payne, drummer
15. George "Sonny" Cohn, trumpeter
16. Herbert Lawrence "Sonny" Greenwich, guitarist*
17. Sunny Sumter, vocalist/DC Jazz Festival Executive Director*
18. Sunny Jain, drummer*

Previously on this (highly informal) series of listicles.

*Still alive.