# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerald-wilson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:17:57.706Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerald-wilson"
name: "Gerald Wilson"
slug: "gerald-wilson"
description: "Gerald Stanley Wilson was an American jazz trumpeter, big band bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator. Born in Mississippi, he was based in Los Angeles from the early 1940s. He arranged music for Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, Julie London, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Carter, Lionel Hampton, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, and Nancy Wilson."
tagline: "American trumpetist (1918–2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gerald_S._Wilson.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1918-09-04"
deathDate: "2014-09-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.09157509157509158
  historical:           17.37300533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2360919/"
    handle:    "nm2360919"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump