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- United States
- Active from
- 1969-10-28
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Billy Harper's unique music creativity was first noted in Houston, Texas, where, at age 5, he was singing at sacred and secular functions and participating in choral and solo singing events. By age 14, he formed his first Billy Harper Quintet while a student at Evan E. Worthing High School. Graduating cum laude, he went on to study saxophone and music theory at North Texas State University and received his Bachelor of Music degree. He continued graduate studies at NTSU and became a member of the
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- NIA‐AA Research Framework: Toward a biological definition of Alzheimer's disease
· 2018 · cited 9,283x
- Macromolecular structure determination using X-rays, neutrons and electrons: recent developments in
<i>Phenix</i>
· 2019 · cited 7,248x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,740x
- Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,604x
- Factors associated with COVID-19-related death using OpenSAFELY
· 2020 · cited 5,335x
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1943 births21st-century American flautists21st-century American saxophonistsAmerican jazz educatorsAmerican jazz flautistsAmerican male flautistsHard bop saxophonistsJazz musicians from HoustonJazz musicians from TexasLiving peopleMusicians from HoustonRutgers University facultySoul-jazz saxophonistsStrata-East Records artistsThe Jazz Messengers membersThe Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra membersUniversity of North Texas College of Music alumni