found: Oliver, Sy. Minor goes a muggin', 1944 (Sid Cooper, alto saxophone)
found: 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)
found: 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")
found: 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))
found: 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)
