# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-houston
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:58:08.705Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-houston"
name: "Joe Houston"
slug: "joe-houston"
description: "Joseph Abraham Houston was an American tenor saxophonist who played jazz and rhythm and blues."
tagline: "American jazz and R&B tenor saxophonist (1926–2015)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_Houston.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: "1926-07-12"
deathDate: "2015-12-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.56
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.137905333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2179049/"
    handle:    "nm2179049"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/848613"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جو هوستون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Houston"
    title: "Joe Houston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Houston"
    title: "Joe Houston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Houston"
    title: "Joe Houston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Houston"
    title: "Joe Houston"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/892e5f2e-af97-42cc-a525-e1b62b951b7a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3180087"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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