# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-dixon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:33:14.091Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-dixon"
name: "Bill Dixon"
slug: "bill-dixon"
description: "William Robert Dixon was an American composer and educator. Dixon was one of the seminal figures in free jazz and late twentieth-century contemporary music. He was also a prominent activist for artists' rights and African-American music tradition. He played the trumpet, flugelhorn, and piano, often using electronic delay and reverb."
tagline: "American composer and educator (1925–2010)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/db/Bill_Dixon.jpg/330px-Bill_Dixon.jpg"
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: "1925-10-05"
deathDate: "2010-06-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.94
  momentum:             5.72750569476082
  historical:           14.89859866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 232
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    title: "Bill Dixon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Dixon"
    title: "Bill Dixon"
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    title: "Bill Dixon"
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    title: "Bill Dixon"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump