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Ben Webster

1909 - 1973

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Benjamin Francis Webster (March 27, 1909 – September 20, 1973) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He performed in the United States and Europe and made many recordings with Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Johnny Hodges, and others. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ben Webster is the 667th most popular musician (down from 398th in 2019), the 3,756th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,214th in 2019) and the 204th most popular American Musician.

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Among musicians, Ben Webster ranks 667 out of 3,175. Before him are Clifford Brown, Wendy Carlos, Axel Rudi Pell, Curtis Mayfield, Peter Schreier, and Conrad Graf. After him are Bill Bruford, Tico Torres, Rick Wakeman, Gerd Albrecht, Tony Banks, and Tom Fogerty.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Ben Webster ranks 135. Before him are André Cayatte, Dean Rusk, Milena Pavlović-Barili, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Hendrik Casimir, and Kinuyo Tanaka. After him are Sylvère Maes, Guy de Rothschild, Jerzy Andrzejewski, Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, Aenne Burda, and Shigeo Shingo. Among people deceased in 1973, Ben Webster ranks 113. Before him are Laurence Harvey, Mirra Alfassa, Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Lidia Ruslanova, and Dmytro Dontsov. After him are Karel Ančerl, Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz, Gabriel Voisin, Salchak Toka, Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, and Gene Krupa.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ben Webster ranks 3,756 out of 20,380. Before him are R. James Woolsey Jr. (1941), Al Green (1946), Ken Block (1967), Catherine Keener (1959), Clarence Brown (1890), and Richard Thorpe (1896). After him are D. B. Weiss (1971), Bruce McGill (1950), Charles Tilly (1929), Tico Torres (1953), David Ausubel (1918), and Dove Cameron (1996).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Ben Webster ranks 204. Before him are Archie Shepp (1937), Joan Jett (1958), Chad Smith (1961), Clifford Brown (1930), Wendy Carlos (1939), and Curtis Mayfield (1942). After him are Tico Torres (1953), Tom Fogerty (1941), Eric Singer (1958), Stephen Kovacevich (1940), Lindsey Buckingham (1949), and Captain Beefheart (1941).

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