# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gary-willis
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:04:05.544Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gary-willis"
name: "Gary Willis"
slug: "gary-willis"
description: "Gary Willis is an American bassist and composer known foremost as the co-founder of the jazz fusion band Tribal Tech. Aside from his work in Tribal Tech, Willis has worked with numerous other jazz musicians including Wayne Shorter, Dennis Chambers, and Allan Holdsworth. \"Slaughterhouse 3\", released in 2006, continued his collaboration with drummer Kirk Covington as well as saxophonist Llibert Fortuny to form a modern jazz/funk/groove power-trio. Willis's latest solo CD Larger Than Life was released on the Abstractlogix label in 2015."
tagline: "American musician"
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: "1957-03-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.30248666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.garywillis.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/340300"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "غاري ويليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%89_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "جارى ويليس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Willis"
    title: "Gary Willis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Willis"
    title: "Gary Willis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Willis"
    title: "Gary Willis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Willis"
    title: "Gary Willis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Willis"
    title: "Gary Willis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Willis"
    title: "Gary Willis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B2%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ゲイリー・ウィリス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Willis"
    title: "Gary Willis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/021ddda0-ee1e-4740-9ead-052bfa8285a8"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q979596"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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