# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/buster-smith-q1017770
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:59:06.135Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/buster-smith-q1017770"
name: "Buster Smith"
slug: "buster-smith-q1017770"
description: "Henry Franklin \"Buster\" Smith, also known as Professor Smith, was an American jazz alto saxophonist and mentor to Charlie Parker. Smith was instrumental in instituting the Texas Sax Sound with Count Basie and Lester Young in the 1930s."
tagline: "Jazz alto saxophonist (1904-1991)"
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: "1904-08-24"
deathDate: "1991-08-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.75
  momentum:             5.195612844866576
  historical:           7.881750666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0807578/"
    handle:    "nm0807578"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/670130"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "باستر سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Smith"
    title: "Buster Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Smith"
    title: "Buster Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Smith"
    title: "Buster Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Smith"
    title: "Buster Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%2C_%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Смит, Бастер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%B9%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%AA%DA%BE"
    title: "بسٹر اسمتھ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7c0eaa6d-31c0-4e2a-8a00-6567d4677caa"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1017770"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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