# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arthur-blythe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:56:32.906Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arthur-blythe"
name: "Arthur Blythe"
slug: "arthur-blythe"
description: "Arthur Murray Blythe was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer. He was described by critic Chris Kelsey as displaying \"one of the most easily recognizable alto sax sounds in jazz, big and round, with a fast, wide vibrato and an aggressive, precise manner of phrasing\" and furthermore as straddling the avant garde and traditionalist jazz, often with bands featuring unusual instrumentation."
tagline: "American musician (1940–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arthur_Blythe_1989.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: "1940-07-05"
deathDate: "2017-03-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.554621848739496
  historical:           10.76303333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4811790/"
    handle:    "nm4811790"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.arthurblythe.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Arthur Blythe"
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    title: "آرثر بلايث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B1%D8%AB%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "آرثر بلايث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Blythe"
    title: "Arthur Blythe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Blythe"
    title: "Arthur Blythe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Blythe"
    title: "Arthur Blythe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Blythe"
    title: "Arthur Blythe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9"
    title: "アーサー・ブライス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Blythe"
    title: "Arthur Blythe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Blythe"
    title: "Arthur Blythe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Blythe"
    title: "Arthur Blythe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/91652f18-ce2d-40e1-b6ab-07179a82fb12"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q349203"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump