# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gary-mcfarland
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:11:42.392Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gary-mcfarland"
name: "Gary McFarland"
slug: "gary-mcfarland"
description: "Gary Ronald McFarland was an American composer, arranger, conductor, vibraphonist, and vocalist. He recorded for the jazz imprints Verve and Impulse! Records during the 1960s. DownBeat magazine said he made \"one of the more significant contributors to orchestral jazz\". A 2015 review of a McFarland DVD documentary called him \"one of the busiest New York jazz arrangers of the 1960s\". The review further stated that McFarland's \"ascendance coincided with the rise of bossa nova, and McFarland was adept at translating the mercurial song form into orchestrations. He wrote some beautiful orchestral settings for great soloists, yet wasn't immune to commercial forces.\""
tagline: "American composer, vibraphonist and vocalist (1933–1971)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1933-10-23"
deathDate: "1971-11-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.21
  momentum:             0.3826530612244898
  historical:           11.429304
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568756/"
    handle:    "nm0568756"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McFarland"
    title: "Gary McFarland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McFarland"
    title: "Gary McFarland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McFarland"
    title: "Gary McFarland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McFarland"
    title: "Gary McFarland"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McFarland"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McFarland"
    title: "Gary McFarland"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McFarland"
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    title: "Макфарланд, Гэри"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump