# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-anderson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:43:05.366Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-anderson"
name: "Fred Anderson"
slug: "fred-anderson"
description: "Fred Anderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who was based in Chicago, Illinois. Anderson's playing was rooted in the swing music and hard bop idioms, but he also incorporated innovations from free jazz. Anderson was also noted for having mentored numerous young musicians. Critic Ben Ratliff called him \"a father figure of experimental jazz in Chicago\". Writer John Corbett referred to him as \"scene caretaker, underground booster, indefatigable cultural worker, quiet force for good.\" In 2001, author John Litweiler called Anderson \"the finest tenor saxophonist in free jazz/underground jazz/outside jazz today.\""
tagline: "American saxophonist (1929–2010)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fred_Anderson_Jazz.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: "1929-03-22"
deathDate: "2010-06-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.3
  momentum:             5.26315789473684
  historical:           8.345537333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/582509"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "فريد انديرسون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Anderson"
    title: "Fred Anderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Anderson"
    title: "Fred Anderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Anderson_(musician)"
    title: "Fred Anderson (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Anderson"
    title: "Fred Anderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Anderson_(musicien)"
    title: "Fred Anderson (musicien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Anderson"
    title: "Fred Anderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Anderson"
    title: "Fred Anderson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9a6b109d-5a96-4d9f-a421-425ab1519eb4"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q376184"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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