# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leo-wright
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:42:49.827Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leo-wright"
name: "Leo Wright"
slug: "leo-wright"
description: "Leo Wright was an American jazz musician who played alto saxophone, flute and clarinet. He played with Booker Ervin, Charles Mingus, John Hardee, Kenny Burrell, Johnny Coles, Blue Mitchell and Dizzy Gillespie in the late 1950s, early 1960s and in the late 1970s. Relocating to Europe in 1963, Wright settled in Berlin and later Vienna. During this time he performed and recorded primarily in Europe, using European musicians or fellow American expatriates, such as Kenny Clarke and Art Farmer. He died of a heart attack in 1991 at the age of 57."
tagline: "American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and flautist (1933-1991)"
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: "1933-12-14"
deathDate: "1991-01-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.78
  momentum:             5.720238095238094
  historical:           12.47894266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4300314/"
    handle:    "nm4300314"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/284700"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ليو رايت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%88_%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA"
    title: "لیو رایت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Leo Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Wright"
    title: "Leo Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Wright"
    title: "Leo Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Wright"
    title: "Leo Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Wright"
    title: "Leo Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Wright"
    title: "Leo Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88"
    title: "レオ・ライト"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Wright"
    title: "Leo Wright"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE"
    title: "Райт, Лео"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%82"
    title: "Лео Райт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2462386"
    title: "Leo Wright"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump