# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frank-foster-q489245
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:55:36.178Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/frank-foster-q489245"
name: "Frank Foster"
slug: "frank-foster-q489245"
description: "Frank Benjamin Foster III was an American tenor and soprano saxophonist, flautist, arranger, and composer. Foster collaborated frequently with Count Basie and worked as a bandleader from the early 1950s. In 1998, Howard University awarded Frank Foster with the Benny Golson Jazz Master Award."
tagline: "American jazz musician and bandleader (1928–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Frank_Foster_2008_(cropped).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: "1928-09-23"
deathDate: "2011-07-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.59
  momentum:             0.8072174738841407
  historical:           14.30763466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/111145312293095"
    handle:    "111145312293095"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0287807/"
    handle:    "nm0287807"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.piadrum.com/Frank_Foster_Bio.htm"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "فرانك فوستر (ملحن)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرانك فوستر (ملحن)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1_(%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9%DB%8C_%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%86%DB%8C)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Foster_(hudebn%C3%ADk)"
    title: "Frank Foster (hudebník)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Foster"
    title: "Frank Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Foster_(Jazzmusiker)"
    title: "Frank Foster (Jazzmusiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Foster_(jazz_musician)"
    title: "Frank Foster (jazz musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Foster"
    title: "Frank Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Foster"
    title: "Frank Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Foster"
    title: "Frank Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Foster"
    title: "Frank Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Foster"
    title: "Frank Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Foster_(jazzmusicus)"
    title: "Frank Foster (jazzmusicus)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Foster"
    title: "Frank Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Foster"
    title: "Frank Foster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c62ceb28-084f-47e4-b780-f47ab701b7b5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q489245"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2645342"
    title: "Frank Foster"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump