Randy Weston

Person · Open Library

Works

3

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1926-04-06

Active to

2018-09-01

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

56,351

Total plays

283,774

Randy Weston (April 6, 1926 – September 1, 2018) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Weston's piano style owes much to Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. Beginning in the 1950s, he worked often with trombonist and arranger Melba Liston. Described as "America's African Musical Ambassador", he has said, "What I do I do because it's about teaching and informing everyone about our most natural cultural phenomenon. It's really about Africa and her music. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/R

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution

   · 2010 · cited 23,585x

2. The Satisfaction With Life Scale

   · 1985 · cited 23,455x

3. <i>Phaser</i>crystallographic software

   · 2007 · cited 20,210x

4. An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest

   · 2006 · cited 13,015x

5. Overview of the<i>CCP</i>4 suite and current developments

   · 2011 · cited 11,960x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Randy

Family name

Weston

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

New York City

Place of death

Brooklyn

Occupation

recording artist

Languages spoken

English language

Native language

English language

Genre

jazz

Instrument

piano

Record label

Riverside

Conflict

World War II

Official website

www.randyweston.info

Image

Randy Weston.jpg

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