# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-johnson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:47:03.957Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-johnson"
name: "Howard Johnson"
slug: "howard-johnson"
description: "Howard Lewis Johnson was an American jazz musician, known mainly for his work on tuba and baritone saxophone, although he also played the bass clarinet, trumpet, and other reed instruments. He is known to have expanded the tuba’s known capacities in jazz."
tagline: "American musician (1941–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mansur_Scott_Harlem_Quartet_feat_Howard_Johnson_-_INNt%C3%B6ne_Jazzfestival_2013_25_(cropped).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: "1941-08-07"
deathDate: "2021-01-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.57
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.29766266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/HoJoTuba"
    handle:    "HoJoTuba"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425241/"
    handle:    "nm0425241"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.hojozone.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/290370"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%81_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B2)"
    title: "هوارد جونسون (عازف جاز)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hovard_Conson"
    title: "Hovard Conson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Johnson"
    title: "Howard Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Johnson"
    title: "Howard Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Johnson_(jazz_musician)"
    title: "Howard Johnson (jazz musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Johnson"
    title: "Howard Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Johnson_(musicien)"
    title: "Howard Johnson (musicien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Johnson_(musicista)"
    title: "Howard Johnson (musicista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Johnson_(tuba%C3%AFst)"
    title: "Howard Johnson (tubaïst)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Johnson"
    title: "Howard Johnson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%BD%2C_%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Джонсон, Ховард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Johnson_(jazz_musician)"
    title: "Howard Johnson (jazz musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b335705f-bdf9-45a0-bead-43c331563a1c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q728013"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/76151"
    title: "Howard Johnson"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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