# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-gonsalves
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:33:24.471Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-gonsalves"
name: "Paul Gonsalves"
slug: "paul-gonsalves"
description: "Paul Gonsalves was an American jazz tenor saxophonist best known for his association with Duke Ellington. At the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival, Gonsalves played a 27-chorus solo in the middle of Ellington's \"Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue\", a performance credited with revitalizing Ellington's waning career in the 1950s."
tagline: "American saxophonist and jazz musician (1920-1974)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1920-07-12"
deathDate: "1974-05-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.980132450331126
  historical:           13.58286933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump