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Also known as Jazz Abstraction

American jazz pianist, composer and arranger (1920–2001)

Person · Open Library

Born
21 Feb 1940
Died
17 Jul 2020
Works
25

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  • Walking with the wind
  • JOHN LEWIS - MARCH. LIBRO UNO
  • Better Life for Their Children
  • March
  • Traveler's Guide to the Civil Rights Movement

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1935-09-29
Active to
2022-10-28

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61,240
Total plays
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John Aaron Lewis (May 3, 1920 – March 29, 2001) was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger, best known as the musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet. John Lewis was born in La Grange, Illinois, and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and began learning classical music and piano at the age of seven. His family was musical and had a family band that allowed him to play frequently and he also played in a Boy Scout music group. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Lewis">Read more o

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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  4. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

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  5. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 34,522x

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Quotes

  • Next time we march we may have to keep going when we get to Montgomery. We may have to on to Washington.
  • I thought I was going to die a few times. On the Freedom Ride in the year 1961, when I was beaten at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, I thought I was going to die. On March 7th, 1965, when I was hit in the head with a night stick by a State Trooper at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought I was going to die. I thought I saw death, but nothing can make me question the philosophy of nonviolence.
  • I believe in nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living.
  • We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
  • A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few. Ignoring these cries and failing to respond to this movement is simply not an option. For peace cannot exist where justice is not served. I urge each and everyone of our colleagues to support this legislation.

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birth name
John Aaron Lewis
Commons category
John Lewis (American pianist)
date of birth
1920-05-03
date of death
2001-03-29
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