Plas Johnson

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

United States

Active from

1931

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John Johnson Jr. (b 21 July 1931, Donaldsonville, Louisiana), known since childhood as Plas Johnson, is an American soul-jazz and hard bop tenor saxophonist, probably most familiar as the lead on Henry Mancini’s "The Pink Panther Theme". He and his pianist brother Ray first recorded as the Johnson Brothers in New Orleans in the late 1940s, and Plas then toured with R&B singer Charles Brown. After army service, he moved to Los Angeles and began session recordings as a full-time musician, backing

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data

   · 2016 · cited 32,833x

2. Geant4—a simulation toolkit

   · 2003 · cited 21,263x

3. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,612x

4. Optical Constants of the Noble Metals

   · 1972 · cited 18,236x

5. Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)

   · 2008 · cited 17,858x

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