# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ray-abrams
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:02:20.120Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ray-abrams"
name: "Ray Abrams"
slug: "ray-abrams"
description: "Ray Abrams was an American jazz and jump blues tenor saxophonist, born Ray Abramson in New York City. His younger brother was jazz drummer Lee Abrams. Ray Abrams first worked with Dizzy Gillespie in 1945, toured Europe with Don Redman in 1946 and was with Andy Kirk in 1947. He went back and forth between Kirk and Gillespie for decades. Outside of his work with Gillespie he might be best known for the \"Ray Abrams Big Band.\" Other bands with which he played into the early 1950s include those of Hot Lips Page, Roy Eldridge, and Slim Gaillard."
tagline: "Jazz tenor saxophonist (1920–1992)"
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: "1920-01-23"
deathDate: "1992-07-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.01
  momentum:             13.43881856540085
  historical:           7.870014666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/636148"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A_%D8%A5%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2"
    title: "راي إبرامز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%89_%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B2_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%81_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B2_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "راى ابرامز (عازف جاز من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Abrams"
    title: "Ray Abrams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Abrams_(musician)"
    title: "Ray Abrams (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Abrams_(musicien)"
    title: "Ray Abrams (musicien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%82%A4%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%A0%E3%82%B9"
    title: "レイ・エイブラムス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Abrams"
    title: "Ray Abrams"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/82efc810-f097-4f9f-93ff-7d3555834d07"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1254518"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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