# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-gilmore
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:23:04.245Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-gilmore"
name: "John Gilmore"
slug: "john-gilmore"
description: "John Gilmore was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and percussionist. He was known for his tenure with the avant-garde keyboardist/bandleader Sun Ra from the 1950s to the 1990s, and led The Sun Ra Arkestra from Sun Ra's death in 1993 until his own death in 1995."
tagline: "American tenor saxophonist (1931–1995)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JohnGilmore2.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: "1931-09-28"
deathDate: "1995-08-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.69
  momentum:             2.690437601296597
  historical:           7.056376
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/252034"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore"
    title: "John Gilmore"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore_(Musiker)"
    title: "John Gilmore (Musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore_(musician)"
    title: "John Gilmore (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore_(musicista)"
    title: "John Gilmore (musicista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore"
    title: "John Gilmore"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore"
    title: "John Gilmore"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/51f18da3-397d-4eca-961d-1e488fd0bc2e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q330045"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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