# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tomasz-szukalski
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:28:25.474Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tomasz-szukalski"
name: "Tomasz Szukalski"
slug: "tomasz-szukalski"
description: "Tomasz Szukalski was a Polish jazz saxophonist, composer and improviser. Szukalski worked with Tomasz Stańko, Edward Vesala and Zbigniew Namysłowski. Awarded Magister of Music at Fryderyk Chopin University of Music, Warsaw. Szukalski was a revered master of tenor saxophone and his style was often compared to that of John Coltrane and Ben Webster."
tagline: "Polish jazz saxophone player, composer and improviser (1947–2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/TomaszSzukalski20081023.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1947-01-08"
deathDate: "2012-08-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.31
  momentum:             0.9931506849315069
  historical:           6.811556
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2233950/"
    handle:    "nm2233950"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "توماش سوكالسكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tomasz Szukalski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomasz_Szukalski"
    title: "Tomasz Szukalski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomasz_Szukalski"
    title: "Tomasz Szukalski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomasz_Szukalski"
    title: "Tomasz Szukalski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomasz_Szukalski"
    title: "Tomasz Szukalski"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bc779ddc-5fb6-4b21-85c0-bcebc8eca372"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1793584"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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