# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-jackson
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:03:55.048Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-jackson"
name: "Paul Jackson"
slug: "paul-jackson"
description: "Paul Jerome Jackson Jr. was an American jazz electric bassist and composer. He was a founding member of the Headhunters and played on several of Herbie Hancock's albums, including Head Hunters and Thrust. Jackson subsequently moved to Japan and started a voluntary concert called Jazz for Kids, with the intent of familiarizing students there with African-American history."
tagline: "American musician (1947–2021)"
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: "1947-03-28"
deathDate: "2021-03-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.36
  momentum:             0.8376963350785341
  historical:           8.624413333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.pauljacksonbass.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/272081"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%81_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B2)"
    title: "بول جاكسون (عازف جاز)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Jackson_(hudebn%C3%ADk)"
    title: "Paul Jackson (hudebník)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Jackson"
    title: "Paul Jackson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Jackson"
    title: "Paul Jackson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Jackson_(bassist)"
    title: "Paul Jackson (bassist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Jackson_(m%C3%BAsico)"
    title: "Paul Jackson (músico)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Jackson_(musicien)"
    title: "Paul Jackson (musicien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3_(%E3%83%99%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88)"
    title: "ポール・ジャクソン (ベーシスト)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/43eea62e-6972-46d0-b750-ade06ea4b06f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q779878"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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