# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dick-heckstall-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:48:40.828Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dick-heckstall-smith"
name: "Dick Heckstall-Smith"
slug: "dick-heckstall-smith"
description: "Richard Malden Heckstall-Smith was an English jazz and blues saxophonist. He played with some of the most influential English blues rock and jazz fusion bands of the 1960s and 1970s. He is known for primarily playing tenor, soprano, and baritone saxophones, as well as piano, clarinet and alto saxophone."
tagline: "English jazz and blues saxophonist (1934-2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dick_Heckstall-Smith.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1934-09-26"
deathDate: "2004-12-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.26
  momentum:             4.817518248175182
  historical:           11.669696
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1155369/"
    handle:    "nm1155369"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.heckstall-smith.com/"
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    title: "ディック・ヘクストール＝スミス"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump