# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fred-wesley
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:06:49.973Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fred-wesley"
name: "Fred Wesley"
slug: "fred-wesley"
description: "Fred Wesley is an American trombonist who worked with James Brown in the 1960s and 1970s, and Parliament-Funkadelic in the second half of the 1970s."
tagline: "American jazz trombonist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fred_wesley.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: "1943-07-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.74
  momentum:             8.424437299035366
  historical:           14.136008
  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/nm0921739/"
    handle:    "nm0921739"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.funkyfredwesley.com"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "فرد ويسلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرد ويسلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "فرد ویسلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Fred Wesley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Wesley"
    title: "Fred Wesley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Wesley"
    title: "Fred Wesley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Wesley"
    title: "Fred Wesley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Wesley"
    title: "Fred Wesley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Wesley"
    title: "Fred Wesley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "フレッド・ウェズリー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "프레드 웨슬리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Wesley"
    title: "Fred Wesley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Wesley"
    title: "Fred Wesley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Wesley"
    title: "Fred Wesley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q585984"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/133583"
    title: "Fred Wesley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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