# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/anthony-braxton
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:48:19.131Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/anthony-braxton"
name: "Anthony Braxton"
slug: "anthony-braxton"
description: "Anthony Braxton is an American experimental composer, educator, music theorist, improviser, and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for playing saxophones, particularly the alto sax. He grew up on the South Side of Chicago and was a key early member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. He received great acclaim for his 1969 double-LP record For Alto, the first full-length album of solo saxophone music."
tagline: "American musician, composer and philosopher (born 1945)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Anthony_Braxton_76.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1945-06-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  85
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ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump