# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/woody-shaw
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:10:43.294Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/woody-shaw"
name: "Woody Shaw"
slug: "woody-shaw"
description: "Woody Herman Shaw Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, arranger, band leader, and educator. Shaw is widely known as one of the 20th century's most important and influential jazz trumpeters and composers. He is often credited with revolutionizing the technical and harmonic language of modern jazz trumpet playing, and is regarded by many as one of the major innovators of the instrument. He was an acclaimed virtuoso, mentor, and spokesperson for jazz and worked and recorded alongside many of the leading musicians of his time."
tagline: "American musician (1944-1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Woody_Shaw.jpg?width=1200"
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: "1944-12-24"
deathDate: "1989-05-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.6
  momentum:             0.9437086092715232
  historical:           19.36026666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://WoodyShaw.com"
sources:
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    title: "Woody Shaw"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Woody Shaw"
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    title: "Woody Shaw"
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    title: "Woody Shaw"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ウディ・ショウ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "우디 쇼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump