# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-fontana
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:29:35.653Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-fontana"
name: "Carl Fontana"
slug: "carl-fontana"
description: "Carl Charles Fontana was an American jazz trombonist. After working in the big bands of Woody Herman, Lionel Hampton, and Stan Kenton, he devoted most of his career to playing music in Las Vegas."
tagline: "American musician (1928–2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carl_Fontana.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1928-07-18"
deathDate: "2003-10-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.75
  momentum:             1.666666666666667
  historical:           10.27883466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/302498"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "كارل فونتانا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Fontana"
    title: "Carl Fontana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Fontana"
    title: "Carl Fontana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Fontana"
    title: "Carl Fontana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Fontana"
    title: "Carl Fontana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Fontana"
    title: "Carl Fontana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Fontana"
    title: "Carl Fontana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Fontana"
    title: "Carl Fontana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%83%8A"
    title: "カール・フォンタナ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Fontana"
    title: "Carl Fontana"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/30d16aa7-ce3f-430c-855b-01cf3a5e9b17"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1037824"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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