# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-cook
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:13:20.244Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-cook"
name: "Richard Cook"
slug: "richard-cook"
description: "Richard David Cook was a British jazz writer, magazine editor and former record company executive. Sometimes credited as R. D. Cook, Cook was born in Kew, Surrey, and lived in west London as an adult. A writer on music from the late 1970s until he died, Cook was co-author, with Brian Morton, of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, which lasted for ten editions until 2010. His other books included Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia, Blue Note Records: The Biographyand, and It's About That Time: Miles Davis On and Off the Record."
tagline: "British writer and journalist (1957–2007)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1957-02-07"
deathDate: "2007-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.7
  momentum:             1.967213114754098
  historical:           8.344745333333332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2006601/"
    handle:    "nm2006601"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ريتشارد كوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%83_(%D8%B5%D8%AD%D9%81%D9%89)"
    title: "ريتشارد كوك (صحفى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cook"
    title: "Richard Cook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cook_(journalist)"
    title: "Richard Cook (journalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cook"
    title: "Richard Cook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF_(%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC)"
    title: "リチャード・クック (ジャズ・ライター)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Cook_(journalist)"
    title: "Richard Cook (journalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q356217"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2803620"
    title: "Richard Cook"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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