# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/count-basie
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:13:01.934Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/count-basie"
name: "Count Basie"
slug: "count-basie"
description: "William James \"Count\" Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording. He led the group for almost 50 years, creating innovations like the use of two \"split\" tenor saxophones, emphasizing the rhythm section, riffing with a big band, using arrangers to broaden their sound, his minimalist piano style, and others."
tagline: "American jazz musician and composer (1904–1984)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Count_Basie_(1955_Kriegsmann_portrait_-_square_crop).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: "1904-08-21"
deathDate: "1984-04-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.808524
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 192
totalFollowers: 38400
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0059831"
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    handle:    "@countbasieofficial"
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    title: "Count Basie"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump