Ben Pollack

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1903-06-22

Active to

1971-06-07

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

2,443

Total plays

10,505

Ben Pollack (June 22, 1903 - June 7, 1971) was a drummer and bandleader from the mid 1920s through the swing era. His eye for talent led him to either discover or employ, at one time or another, musicians such as Benny Goodman, Jack Teagarden, Glenn Miller, Jimmy McPartland and Harry James. This ability earned him the nickname "Father of Swing". Born in Chicago, Illinois to a well-to-do family, Pollack was largely self taught as a drummer, and was afforded the opportunity to become the drummer

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using <b>lme4</b>

   · 2015 · cited 73,406x

2. Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

   · 2012 · cited 52,862x

3. HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements

   · 2015 · cited 21,526x

4. Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome

   · 2009 · cited 19,788x

5. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,412x

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