# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harold-ashby
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:59:13.506Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harold-ashby"
name: "Harold Ashby"
slug: "harold-ashby"
description: "Harold Ashby was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He worked with Duke Ellington's band, replacing Jimmy Hamilton in 1968. In 1959, he recorded backing Willie Dixon on the latter's first album, Willie's Blues."
tagline: "American musician (1925–2003)"
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: "1925-03-27"
deathDate: "2003-06-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.53
  momentum:             0.8108108108108109
  historical:           9.204572
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%A3%D8%B4%D8%A8%D9%8A"
    title: "هارولد أشبي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D8%B4%D8%A8%D9%89"
    title: "هارولد اشبى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Ashby"
    title: "Harold Ashby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Ashby"
    title: "Harold Ashby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Ashby"
    title: "Harold Ashby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Ashby"
    title: "Harold Ashby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Ashby"
    title: "Harold Ashby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Ashby"
    title: "Harold Ashby"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B4_%D0%95%D1%88%D0%B1%D1%96"
    title: "Гарольд Ешбі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/cc292ec4-55e4-45be-8592-4ab2d31e2751"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1375056"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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