# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arnett-cobb
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:22:00.447Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arnett-cobb"
name: "Arnett Cobb"
slug: "arnett-cobb"
description: "Arnett Cleophus Cobb was an American tenor saxophonist, sometimes known as the \"Wild Man of the Tenor Sax\" because of his uninhibited stomping style. Cobb wrote the words and music for the jazz standard \"Smooth Sailing\" (1951), which Ella Fitzgerald recorded for Decca and later included on her album Lullabies of Birdland."
tagline: "American jazz tenor saxophonist (1918-1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arnett_Cobb_im_Filmforum.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1918-08-10"
deathDate: "1989-03-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             12.45283018867924
  historical:           12.48715066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0167738/"
    handle:    "nm0167738"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnett_Cobb"
    title: "Arnett Cobb"
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  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnett_Cobb"
    title: "Arnett Cobb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnett_Cobb"
    title: "Arnett Cobb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnett_Cobb"
    title: "Arnett Cobb"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnett_Cobb"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump