# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tommy-mccook
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:25:28.377Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tommy-mccook"
name: "Tommy McCook"
slug: "tommy-mccook"
description: "Tommy McCook was a Jamaican saxophonist. A founding member of The Skatalites, he also directed The Supersonics for Duke Reid, and backed many sessions for Bunny Lee or with The Revolutionaries at Channel One Studios in the 1970s."
tagline: "Jamaican musician (1927–1998)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1927-03-03"
deathDate: "1998-05-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.84
  momentum:             2.438127036094588
  historical:           10.76695733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2640446/"
    handle:    "nm2640446"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/115863"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_McCook"
    title: "Tommy McCook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_McCook"
    title: "Tommy McCook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_McCook"
    title: "Tommy McCook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_McCook"
    title: "Tommy McCook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_McCook"
    title: "Tommy McCook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_McCook"
    title: "Tommy McCook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_McCook"
    title: "Tommy McCook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_McCook"
    title: "Tommy McCook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%AF%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF"
    title: "トミー・マクック"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_McCook"
    title: "Tommy McCook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_McCook"
    title: "Tommy McCook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/db987393-16fb-4408-b43b-b82e75f1fffc"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1075854"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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