| LC control no. | n 84162381 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Weston, Randy, 1926-2018 |
| Variant(s) | Weston, Randolph Edward, 1926-2018 |
| See also | Corporate body: Randy Weston African Rhythms Quintet Corporate body: Randy Weston Sextet Corporate body: Randy Weston Trio |
| Birth date | 1926-04-06 |
| Death date | 2018-09-01 |
| Place of birth | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Jazz Jazz--African influences |
| Profession or occupation | Pianists Composers Jazz musicians |
| Found in | His Blue [SR] p1984: labels (Randy Weston) New Grove dict. of jazz, 2nd ed. (Weston, Randy (Randolph Edward); b. Apr. 6, 1926, New York; pianist and composer) New York times WWW site, viewed Sept. 4, 2018 (in obituary published Sept. 1: Randy Weston; b. Randolph Edward Weston, Apr. 6, 1926, Brooklyn; d. there Saturday [Sept. 1, 2018], aged 92; esteemed pianist whose music and scholarship advanced the argument, now broadly accepted, that jazz is, at its core, an African music) |
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