# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-parker
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:06:55.246Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-parker"
name: "William Parker"
slug: "william-parker"
description: "William Parker is an American free jazz double bassist. Beginning in the 1980s, Parker played with Cecil Taylor for over a decade, and he has led the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra since 1981. The Village Voice named him \"the most consistently brilliant free jazz bassist of all time\" and DownBeat has called him \"one of the most adventurous and prolific bandleaders in jazz\"."
tagline: "American jazz musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/William_Parker_Kongsberg_Jazzfestival_2022_(221835).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952-01-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.68
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.692442666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/william.parker.9469"
    handle:    "william.parker.9469"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/5r65V3tfKsDc3nHfpIl7D0"
    handle:    "5r65V3tfKsDc3nHfpIl7D0"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.williamparker.net/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B1_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "ويليام باركر (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%B1_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%81_%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%87_%D8%A2%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "ويليام باركر (عازف على عده آلات من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%DA%A9%D8%B1_(%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86)"
    title: "ویلیام بارکر (موزیسین)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Parker_(m%C3%BAsic)"
    title: "William Parker (músic)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Parker"
    title: "William Parker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Parker_(Musiker)"
    title: "William Parker (Musiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Parker_(musician)"
    title: "William Parker (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Parker_(musicien)"
    title: "William Parker (musicien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Parker_(zen%C3%A9sz)"
    title: "William Parker (zenész)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Parker"
    title: "William Parker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/884c61a3-01f5-467f-a859-ad8417b79909"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2580222"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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