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Sam Jones

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Also known as Samuel Jones

American basketball player and coach (1933–2021)

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Sam Jones is a male artist from the United States. His musical genres include classic country, country, and 2008 universal fire victim. He has 15,749 listeners and a playcount of 123,383 on Last.fm. His tags are jazz, trance, double bass, bass, and Hard Bop.

He is also a basketball player who played from 1957 to 1969. He wore number 24, stood 193 centimeters tall, and weighed 90 kilograms. Additionally, he is an ice hockey defenceman for the Guildford Flames and is from England.

As an author, Sam Jones has 39 works listed in Open Library, including No Meat Disco and Pirates. He has 5 works in Crossref. His birth date is June 24, 1933, and his death date is December 30, 2021.

Synthesized by Vinony from 27 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
39

Top works

  • No Meat Disco
  • A Bangor book of verse
  • Pirates
  • How to Give a Hand Job That Will Blow His Mind (with Illustrations)
  • Good News

via Open Library + Wikidata

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
15,749
Total plays
123,383

Tags

jazztrancedouble bassbassHard Bop

1. Samuel Jones (November 12, 1924 – December 15, 1981) was a jazz double bassist, cellist and composer. Sam Jones was born in Jacksonville, FL, and moved in 1955 to New York City. There, he played with Bobby Timmons, Tiny Bradshaw, Les Jazz Modes, Kenny Dorham, Illinois Jacquet, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie (1958–59) and Thelonious Monk. He is probably best known for his work with Cannonball Adderley (1959–65). He also spent several years <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sam+Jones">Read

via Last.fm · Sam Jones

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,538x

  2. Geant4—a simulation toolkit

    · 2003 · cited 21,295x

  3. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

    · 2001 · cited 18,620x

  4. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,790x

  5. Very high resolution interpolated climate surfaces for global land areas

    · 2005 · cited 16,646x

via Crossref · CC0

Sports profile

Sport
Ice Hockey
Team
Guildford Flames
Position
Defenceman
Nationality
England

via TheSportsDB

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Sam
Family name
Jones
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Wilmington
Place of death
Boca Raton
Languages spoken
English language
Member of team
Boston Celtics
Position played
shooting guard
Country for sport
United States
Mass
90
Image
Sam Jones, Boston Celtics, 1969.jpg
Height
193
Show 9 more facts
date of birth
1933-06-24
Commons category
Sam Jones (basketball)
drafted by
Boston Celtics
different from
Samuel Jones
end of work period
1969-00-00
start of work period
1957-00-00
name in native language
Sam Jones
date of death
2021-12-30
sport number
24
Sources (7)

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