George Wein
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- Swingin' the Blues - the Virtuosity of Eddie Durham
- Myself among others
- George Wein presents The twenty-fifth annual Newport Jazz Festival
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- 1925-10-03
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- 2021-09-13
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George Wein (born October 3, 1925) is an American jazz promoter and producer who has been called "the most famous jazz impresario" and "the most important non-player... in jazz history". He is the founder of what is probably the best-known jazz festival in the United States, the Newport Jazz Festival, which is held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. He also co-founded the Newport Folk Festival with Pete Seeger and Theodore Bikel. Wein was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1925, the son of Dr
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- A short history of<i>SHELX</i>
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- Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
· 1997 · cited 47,723x
- Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>
· 2015 · cited 39,979x
- <i>SHELXT</i>– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination
· 2015 · cited 26,889x
- A new and rapid colorimetric determination of acetylcholinesterase activity
· 1961 · cited 23,000x
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