# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hal-mckusick
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:48:30.625Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hal-mckusick"
name: "Hal McKusick"
slug: "hal-mckusick"
description: "Hal McKusick was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, and flutist who worked with Boyd Raeburn from 1944 to 1945 and Claude Thornhill from 1948 to 1949."
tagline: "American jazz flautist and saxophonist (1924–2012)"
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: "1924-06-01"
deathDate: "2012-04-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.16
  momentum:             6.176705225368968
  historical:           10.07782666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4815719/"
    handle:    "nm4815719"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/335496"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_McKusick"
    title: "Hal McKusick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_McKusick"
    title: "Hal McKusick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_McKusick"
    title: "Hal McKusick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_McKusick"
    title: "Hal McKusick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_McKusick"
    title: "Hal McKusick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_McKusick"
    title: "Hal McKusick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_McKusick"
    title: "Hal McKusick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B7%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF"
    title: "ハル・マクシック"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_McKusick"
    title: "Hal McKusick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_McKusick"
    title: "Hal McKusick"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8de3f5fc-1ea2-4f0e-b403-c6391a692ac4"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1375387"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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