Skip to content
EntityQ474283· pop 13· linked from 121 articles

Amos Milburn

Sign in to save

Also known as Joseph Amos Milburn, Amos Milburn, Jr.

American rhythm and blues singer, and pianist (1927–1980)

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1927-04-01
Active to
1980-01-03
boogie-woogiejump bluespiano bluesr&b

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
86,856
Total plays
480,540

Tags

bluesrhythm and bluesboogie woogiejump blues50s

Amos Milburn (Houston, Texas, April 1, 1927 – January 3, 1980) was an American rhythm and blues singer and pianist, popular during the 1940s and 1950s. Joseph Amos Milburn, Jr., one of thirteen children, was playing tunes on the piano by the age of five years. He enlisted in the United States Navy when he was fifteen and earned thirteen battle stars in the Philippines, before returning to Houston and organizing a sixteen-piece band playing in Houston clubs and was Managed by William & Geneva C

via Last.fm · Amos Milburn

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk

    · 1979 · cited 40,297x

  2. Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

    · 1974 · cited 23,889x

  3. The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice

    · 1981 · cited 11,933x

  4. Advances in prospect theory: Cumulative representation of uncertainty

    · 1992 · cited 11,684x

  5. Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability

    · 1973 · cited 6,599x

via Crossref · CC0