# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-most
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:47:52.111Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-most"
name: "Sam Most"
slug: "sam-most"
description: "Samuel Most was an American jazz flutist, clarinetist and tenor saxophonist, based in Los Angeles. He was \"probably the first great jazz flutist\", according to jazz historian Leonard Feather."
tagline: "American jazz flautist, clarinetist, and tenor saxophonist (1930–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sam_Most_2009.png?width=1200"
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: "1930-12-16"
deathDate: "2013-06-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.51
  momentum:             0.8949416342412452
  historical:           8.143413333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1371516/"
    handle:    "nm1371516"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/136123"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "سام موست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Most"
    title: "Sam Most"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Most"
    title: "Sam Most"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Most"
    title: "Sam Most"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Most"
    title: "Sam Most"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Most"
    title: "Sam Most"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Most"
    title: "Sam Most"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/22d16411-89b2-4dcb-8d46-7a97a91f8e58"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1245134"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2563918"
    title: "Sam Mostyn"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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