# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sidney-bechet
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:16:20.771Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sidney-bechet"
name: "Sidney Bechet"
slug: "sidney-bechet"
description: "Sidney Joseph Bechet was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He was one of the first important soloists in jazz, and first recorded several months before trumpeter Louis Armstrong. His erratic temper hampered his music career, and not until the late 1940s did he earn wide acclaim. Bechet spent much of his later life in France."
tagline: "American jazz musician"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1897-05-14"
deathDate: "1959-05-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "http://www.sidneybechet.org/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump