# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:29:25.072Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-smith"
name: "Bill Smith"
slug: "bill-smith"
description: "William Overton Smith was an American clarinetist and composer. He worked extensively in modern classical music, third stream and jazz, and was perhaps best known for having played with pianist Dave Brubeck intermittently from the 1940s to the early 2000s. Smith frequently recorded jazz under the name Bill Smith, but his classical compositions are credited under the name William O. Smith."
tagline: "Jazz musician and composer from the United States"
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: "1926-09-22"
deathDate: "2020-02-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.11
  momentum:             0.1324503311258278
  historical:           7.677682666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2514044/"
    handle:    "nm2514044"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://faculty.washington.edu/kendo/smith.html"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/378105"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB_(%D9%85%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%86_%D8%A3%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A)"
    title: "بيل سميث (ملحن أمريكي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%84_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB_(%D9%85%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%86)"
    title: "بيل سميث (ملحن)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Smith_(Klarinettist)"
    title: "Bill Smith (Klarinettist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Smith_(jazz_musician)"
    title: "Bill Smith (jazz musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Smith"
    title: "Bill Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Overton_Smith"
    title: "William Overton Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3347890f-630e-43b9-85aa-516d964b7c4f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q862469"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3584185"
    title: "Bill Smith"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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