# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jiri-traxler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:15:25.241Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jiri-traxler"
name: "Jiří Traxler"
slug: "jiri-traxler"
description: "Jiří \"George\" Traxler was a Czech Canadian jazz and swing pianist, composer, lyricist and arranger, and was considered a founder and co-creator of the swing music era in Czechoslovakia. He was the last surviving collaborator of the renowned Czech pre-war composer Jaroslav Ježek. In 1951 he emigrated to Canada, and lived with his wife, Jarmila, in Edmonton until his death in the summer of 2011."
tagline: "Czech composer and lyricist (1912–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Traxler-95_narozeniny-2007.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1912-03-12"
deathDate: "2011-08-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.33
  momentum:             4.642857142857143
  historical:           6.602952
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0871473/"
    handle:    "nm0871473"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/955689"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%89_%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "چيرى تراكسلير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Traxler"
    title: "Jiří Traxler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Traxler"
    title: "Jiří Traxler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Traxler"
    title: "Jiří Traxler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%DB%8C%D8%B1%DA%98%DB%8C_%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B1"
    title: "ییرژی تراکسلر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/37fb74cb-2e7a-4683-b2cd-6b7fc2cc1ee0"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1689835"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1283325"
    title: "Jiří Traxler"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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