# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wesley-laviolette
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:57:30.811Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wesley-laviolette"
name: "Wesley LaViolette"
slug: "wesley-laviolette"
description: "Wallace Wesley LaViolette was an American musician who composed, conducted, lectured, and wrote about music. He was also a poet and music theorist. As an educator, he mentored Shorty Rogers, Jimmy Giuffre, John Graas, George Perle, Florence Price, Bob Carter, Bob Florence and Robert Erickson and writer William Irwin Thompson. Laviolette was an important figure on the West coast jazz scene of the 1950s."
tagline: "American musician (1894–1978)"
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: "1894-01-04"
deathDate: "1978-07-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.59
  momentum:             4.207377866400797
  historical:           5.268934666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0479176/"
    handle:    "nm0479176"
sources:
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_La_Violette"
    title: "Wesley La Violette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%89_%D9%84%D8%A7%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "ويسلى لاڤيوليت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_LaViolette"
    title: "Wesley LaViolette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_LaViolette"
    title: "Wesley LaViolette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_La_Violette"
    title: "Wesley La Violette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_LaViolette"
    title: "Wesley LaViolette"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q738316"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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