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Sonny Burke
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American musical arranger, composer, big band leader and producer (1914–1980)
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1914
- Active to
- 1980
Discography
- Mambo Jambo1951
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- Listeners
- 3,725
- Total plays
- 9,709
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Sonny Burke (born Joseph Francis Burke, March 22, 1914, Scranton, Pennsylvania – May 31, 1980) was an accomplished musical arranger, composer, big band leader and producer. In 1937, he graduated from Duke University, where he had formed and led the jazz big band known as the Duke Ambassadors. During the 1930s and 1940s he was a big band arranger in New York, worked with Sam Donahue's band, and during the 1940s and 1950s worked as an arranger for the Charlie Spivak and Jimmy Dorsey bands, among
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,591x
- Frailty in Older Adults: Evidence for a Phenotype
· 2001 · cited 20,841x
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple [Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 3865 (1996)]
· 1997 · cited 13,730x
- Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy
· 2013 · cited 13,570x
- Restoring the Density-Gradient Expansion for Exchange in Solids and Surfaces
· 2008 · cited 11,234x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Burke
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Scranton
- Place of death
- Santa Monica
- Occupation
- actor
- Educated at
- Duke University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- piano
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- date of birth
- 1914-03-22
- date of death
- 1980-05-31
- name in native language
- J. Francis Burke
- birth name
- Joseph Francis Burke
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- writing language
- English language
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