# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/buck-hill
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:43:45.471Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/buck-hill"
name: "Buck Hill"
slug: "buck-hill"
description: "Roger Wendell \"Buck\" Hill was an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist."
tagline: "American musician (1927–2017)"
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: "1927-02-13"
deathDate: "2017-03-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.2
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.005436
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5115940/"
    handle:    "nm5115940"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/346751"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%83_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84"
    title: "باك هيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%83_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%84_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%81_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B2_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "باك هيل (عازف جاز من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Hill"
    title: "Buck Hill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Hill_(musician)"
    title: "Buck Hill (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Hill"
    title: "Buck Hill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Hill"
    title: "Buck Hill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8ad6b46b-bec2-4978-be67-a0bdce33635c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q999318"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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