# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/scott-yanow
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:22:23.137Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/scott-yanow"
name: "Scott Yanow"
slug: "scott-yanow"
description: "Scott Yanow is an American jazz reviewer, historian, and author."
tagline: "American jazz writer (born 1954)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1957-01-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.08941866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.scottyanow.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1807581"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88%D8%AA_%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "سكوت يانو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Yanow"
    title: "Scott Yanow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Yanow"
    title: "Scott Yanow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Yanow"
    title: "Scott Yanow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Yanow"
    title: "Scott Yanow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%98_%D7%99%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%90%D7%95"
    title: "סקוט יאנאו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B3%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A4%E3%83%8A%E3%82%A6"
    title: "スコット・ヤナウ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Yanow"
    title: "Scott Yanow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AF%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%83%2C_%D0%A1%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82"
    title: "Яноу, Скотт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%B9_%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88"
    title: "سکاٹ یانو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/337f3ddc-27c4-4788-8014-1ff0a845c903"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q743133"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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