# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dave-tough
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:32:32.944Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dave-tough"
name: "Dave Tough"
slug: "dave-tough"
description: "David Jarvis Tough was an American jazz drummer associated with Dixieland and swing jazz in the 1930s and 1940s. He has been described as \"the most important of the drummers of the Chicago circle\"."
tagline: "American drummer (1907–1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dave_Tough_1947_(Gottlieb_08701).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: "1907-04-26"
deathDate: "1948-12-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.25
  momentum:             5.416666666666665
  historical:           7.879518666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/313059"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Tough"
    title: "Dave Tough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Tough"
    title: "Dave Tough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Tough"
    title: "Dave Tough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Tough"
    title: "Dave Tough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Tough"
    title: "Dave Tough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Tough"
    title: "Dave Tough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Tough"
    title: "Dave Tough"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/aba74aa3-a402-4070-b84b-9dff254fd472"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q348746"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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