# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bob-acri
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:15:38.603Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bob-acri"
name: "Bob Acri"
slug: "bob-acri"
description: "Robert Acri was an American jazz pianist. Acri graduated from Austin High School in Chicago. While at Austin High, he began his career at the NBC Orchestra on the Dave Garroway Radio Show. He was a classically trained pianist, having studied with Rudolph Ganz and Fred Euing. He also studied composition with Dr. Karel Jirak and Bill Russo. During his career, he played in the radio orchestras of NBC and ABC, as well as in the House Band of the Chicago nightclub Mister Kelly's. He toured with Harry James and accompanied Lena Horne, Mike Douglas, Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Streisand, Buddy Rich and Woody Herman. He earned his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from Roosevelt University in his late 70s. He ended his career as the leader of the house band at the Cantina Room of the Continental Plaza Hotel."
tagline: "American musician and pianist (1918–2013)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6f/Bob_Acri_pic.jpeg"
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: "1918-10-01"
deathDate: "2013-07-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.04
  momentum:             6.389306599832916
  historical:           14.2216
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.bobacri.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Akri"
    title: "Bob Akri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بوب أكري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بوب اكرى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "باب اکری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Acri"
    title: "Bob Acri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Acri"
    title: "Bob Acri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Acri"
    title: "Bob Acri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A8_%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B1%DB%8C"
    title: "باب اکری"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Acri"
    title: "Bob Acri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9C%E3%83%96%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA"
    title: "ボブ・アクリ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B0%A5_%EC%95%84%ED%81%AC%EB%A6%AC"
    title: "밥 아크리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B1_%D0%90%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Боб Акри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Acri"
    title: "Bob Acri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Acri"
    title: "Bob Acri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B8%2C_%D0%91%D0%BE%D0%B1"
    title: "Акри, Боб"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d8f77d0e-ad14-4382-8426-453184dbd407"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q887747"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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