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Also known as Richard Louis Abrams

American musician (1930-2017)

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1930-09-19
Active to
2017-10-29

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15,064
Total plays
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Muhal Richard Abrams (Chicago, Illinois, September 19, 1930 – October 29, 2017) was an American free jazz pianist, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist and educator. Abrams attended DuSable High School in Chicago. By 1946, he enrolled in music classes at Roosevelt University, but "I didn't get too much out of that, because it wasn't what I was hearing in the street". He then decided to study independently: "I've always had a natural ability to study and analyze things. <a href="https://www.

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data

    · 1977 · cited 63,263x

  2. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

    · 2009 · cited 59,166x

  3. Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

    · 2009 · cited 47,601x

  4. ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database

    · 2009 · cited 47,180x

  5. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 43,461x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Richard
Family name
Abrams
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Chicago
Place of death
Manhattan
Occupation
cellist
Languages spoken
English language
Instrument
Gong
Record label
Delmark Records
Image
Muhal Richard Abrams 06N4854.jpg
Residence
New York City
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Commons category
Muhal Richard Abrams
date of birth
1930-09-19
date of death
2017-10-29
birth name
Richard Louis Abrams
start of work period
2017-00-00
ethnic group
African Americans
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