# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-reese-europe
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:50:57.590Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-reese-europe"
name: "James Reese Europe"
slug: "james-reese-europe"
description: "James Reese Europe was an American ragtime and early jazz bandleader, arranger, and composer. A leading figure in New York City's African-American music scene during the 1910s, he was among the first African-American musicians to achieve mainstream recognition. Eubie Blake called him the \"Martin Luther King of music\"."
tagline: "American jazz musician and United States Army officer (1880-1919)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Reese_Europe.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1880-02-22"
deathDate: "1919-05-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             8.208092485549134
  historical:           13.02286533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "James Reese Europe"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Reese_Europe"
    title: "Jimmy Reese Europe"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Reese_Europe"
    title: "James Reese Europe"
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    title: "Ջեյմս Ռիզ Յուրոփ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Reese Europe"
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    title: "James Reese Europe"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump