# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/harry-james
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:31:52.916Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/harry-james"
name: "Harry James"
slug: "harry-james"
description: "Harry Haag James was an American musician who is best known as a trumpet-playing band leader who led a big band to great commercial success from 1939 to 1946. He broke up his band for a short period in 1947, but shortly after he reorganized and was active again with his band from then until his death in 1983. He was especially known among musicians for his technical proficiency as well as his tone, and was influential on new trumpet players from the late 1930s into the 1940s. He was also an actor in a number of films that usually featured his band."
tagline: "American trumpeter, big band leader (1916-1983)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Harry_James1.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1916-03-15"
deathDate: "1983-07-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           58.24
  momentum:             17.84319899244333
  historical:           23.640532
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0416548/"
    handle:    "nm0416548"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.harryjamesband.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "هاري جيمس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هارى جيمس (عازف جاز من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "هاری جیمس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_James"
    title: "Harry James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_James"
    title: "Harry James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_James"
    title: "Harry James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_James"
    title: "Harry James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Harry James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_James"
    title: "Harry James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_James"
    title: "Harry James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_James"
    title: "Harry James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_James"
    title: "Harry James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "הארי ג'יימס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_James"
    title: "Harry James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_James"
    title: "Harry James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ハリー・ジェイムス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%95%B4%EB%A6%AC_%EC%A0%9C%EC%9E%84%EC%8A%A4"
    title: "해리 제임스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Harry James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Harry James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_James"
    title: "Harry James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_James"
    title: "Harry James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81%2C_%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B8"
    title: "Джеймс, Гарри"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_James"
    title: "Harry James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_James"
    title: "Harry James"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%96_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%B7"
    title: "Гері Джеймз"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Harry_James"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e6b3fe16-d0c5-4825-b33e-a83d8fb5de94"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q163861"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1227384"
    title: "Harry James"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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