# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-byas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:10:56.700Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-byas"
name: "Don Byas"
slug: "don-byas"
description: "Carlos Wesley \"Don\" Byas was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, associated with swing and bebop. He played with Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Art Blakey, and Dizzy Gillespie, among others, and also led his own band. He lived in Europe for the last 26 years of his life."
tagline: "American jazz saxophonist (1912–1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Don_Byas_in_the_1940s_croped.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: "1912-10-21"
deathDate: "1972-08-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.34
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.96890133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2692834/"
    handle:    "nm2692834"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Don Byas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Byas"
    title: "Don Byas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Byas"
    title: "Don Byas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Byas"
    title: "Don Byas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Byas"
    title: "Don Byas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Byas"
    title: "Don Byas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Byas"
    title: "Don Byas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Byas"
    title: "Don Byas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Byas"
    title: "Don Byas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Byas"
    title: "Don Byas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Byas"
    title: "Don Byas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Byas"
    title: "Don Byas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Byas"
    title: "Don Byas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4554ec28-0e97-45f1-ad3d-696a48326f1c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1239006"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1474928"
    title: "Don Byas"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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