# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ira-gitler
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:13:59.968Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ira-gitler"
name: "Ira Gitler"
slug: "ira-gitler"
description: "Ira Gitler was an American jazz historian and journalist. The co-author of The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz with Leonard Feather—the most recent edition appeared in 1999—he wrote hundreds of liner notes for jazz recordings beginning in the early 1950s and wrote several books about jazz and ice hockey, two of his passions."
tagline: "American sports journalist and music critic (1928-2019)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1928-12-18"
deathDate: "2019-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.12
  momentum:             1.767151767151767
  historical:           13.35370933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "إيرا جيتلر"
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    title: "ايرا جيتلر"
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    title: "Ira Gitler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Gitler"
    title: "Ira Gitler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Gitler"
    title: "Ira Gitler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Gitler"
    title: "Ira Gitler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Gitler"
    title: "Ira Gitler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Gitler"
    title: "Ira Gitler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%94_%D7%92%D7%99%D7%98%D7%9C%D7%A8"
    title: "איירה גיטלר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Gitler"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Gitler"
    title: "Ira Gitler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%90%D0%B9%D1%80%D0%B0"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7_%DA%AF%D9%B9%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "ایرا گٹلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/dda27964-2005-4713-a343-365c4eba086d"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump