Sonny Greer

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Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1895-12-13

Active to

1982-03-23

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Listeners

509

Total plays

1,135

Sonny Greer (13 December 1895–23 March 1982) was an American jazz drummer, best known for his work with Duke Ellington. Greer was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and played with Elmer Snowden's band and the Howard Theatre's orchestra in Washington, D.C. before joining Duke Ellington, who he met in 1919. He was Ellington's first drummer, playing with his quintet, the Washingtonians, and moving with Ellington into the Cotton Club. As a result of his job as a designer with the Leedy Drum Company

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis

   · 2022 · cited 13,897x

2. Early Palliative Care for Patients with Metastatic Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

   · 2010 · cited 6,338x

3. 2011 Compendium of Physical Activities

   · 2011 · cited 5,495x

4. First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole

   · 2019 · cited 3,651x

5. Adaptive histogram equalization and its variations

   · 1987 · cited 3,418x

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