Ben Webster

Person · Open Library

Works

6

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1909-03-27

Active to

1973-09-20

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

509,927

Total plays

4,093,035

Benjamin Francis Webster (Kansas City, Missouri, USA, March 27, 1909 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 20, 1973) was an influential American jazz tenor saxophonist. Ben Webster, a.k.a. "The Brute" or "Frog", was considered one of the three most important "swing tenors" along with Coleman Hawkins (his main influence) and Lester Young. Known affectionately as "The Brute", he had a tough, raspy, and brutal tone on stomps (with his own distinctive growls), yet on ballads he played with warm

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>

   · 2015 · cited 73,385x

2. Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

   · 2012 · cited 52,854x

3. HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements

   · 2015 · cited 21,525x

4. Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

   · 2009 · cited 19,787x

5. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,411x

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Wikidata facts

Image

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Number of children

2

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