# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/phil-wachsmann
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:05:50.226Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/phil-wachsmann"
name: "Phil Wachsmann"
slug: "phil-wachsmann"
description: "Philipp John Paul Wachsmann is an African avant-garde jazz/ jazz fusion violinist born in Kampala, Uganda, probably better known for having founded his own group Chamberpot. He has worked with many musicians in the free jazz idiom, including Tony Oxley, Fred van Hove, Barry Guy, Derek Bailey and Paul Rutherford, among many others. Wachsmann is especially known for playing within the electronica idiom."
tagline: "Ugandan musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Phil_Wachsmann.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1944-08-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.34
  momentum:             2.321428571428571
  historical:           11.604104
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "فيل واتشسمان"
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    title: "Philipp Wachsmann"
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    title: "Phil Wachsmann"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Wachsmann"
    title: "Phil Wachsmann"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Wachsmann"
    title: "Philipp Wachsmann"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AF%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Philipp Wachsmann"
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    title: "Phil Wachsmann"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b1bf13e5-15b3-4c71-8c54-719d839ed8a0"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump