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Ronald Shannon Jackson, a Common card
Ronald Shannon Jackson was an American jazz drummer from Fort Worth, Texas.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 57
- Power
- 123
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 9,200
Power 123 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Ronald Shannon Jackson quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ronald Shannon Jackson card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
A pioneer of avant-garde jazz, free funk, and jazz fusion, he appeared on over 50 albums as a ______, sideman, arranger, and producer.
Answer
bandleader. A pioneer of avant-garde jazz, free funk, and jazz fusion, he appeared on over 50 albums as a bandleader, sideman, arranger, and producer. From the Ronald Shannon Jackson article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Lily Li. Lily Li 76 · Jim Hurtubise 73 · Ronald Shannon Jackson 66 · New Orleans rhythm and blues 60 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- A pioneer of avant-garde jazz, free funk, and jazz fusion, he appeared on over 50 albums as a bandleader, sideman, arranger, and producer.
- Jackson and bassist Sirone are the only musicians to have performed and recorded with the three prime shapers of free jazz: pianist Cecil Taylor, and saxophonists Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler.
- Musician, Player and Listener magazine writers David Breskin and Rafi Zabor called him "the most stately free-jazz drummer in the history of the idiom, a regal and thundering presence." Gary Giddins wrote "Jackson is an astounding drummer, as everyone agrees...he has emerged as a kind of all-purpose new-music connoisseur who brings a profound and unshakably individual approach to every playing…
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ronald Shannon Jackson article was read about 9,200 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 57: each hit it takes is cut by 23 %.
How to get Ronald Shannon Jackson
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ronald Shannon Jackson (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Nomo / michael hoefner http://www.zwo5.de, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
