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Fletcher Henderson
Sign in to saveAlso known as James Fletcher Hamilton Henderson, Jr., Smack, James Fletcher Hamilton Henderson, Fletcher H. Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer (1897–1952)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Yeah man!
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1897-12-18
- Active to
- 1952-12-28
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
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- 127,879
- Total plays
- 802,455
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Born James Fletcher Henderson December 18th, 1897, in Cuthbert, Georgia and died December 28th, 1952 due to a stroke. Fletcher Henderson was very important to early jazz as leader of the first great jazz big band, as an arranger and composer in the 1930s, and as a masterful talent scout. Between 1923-1939, quite an all-star cast of top young black jazz musicians passed through his orchestra, including trumpeters Louis Armstrong, Joe Smith, Tommy Ladnier <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Fletc
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition
· 1989 · cited 9,208x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,084x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,740x
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Wikidata facts
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- Fletcher Henderson (1943 publicity photo).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1897-12-18
- date of death
- 1952-12-29
- start of work period
- 1921-00-00
- Commons category
- Fletcher Henderson
- end of work period
- 1952-00-00
- name in native language
- Fletcher Henderson
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