# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-riley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:40:29.317Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-riley"
name: "Ben Riley"
slug: "ben-riley"
description: "Benjamin Alexander Riley Jr. was an American jazz drummer known primarily for his work with Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk. Riley worked with a number of other musicians throughout his prolific career as a sideman, such as Alice Coltrane, Stan Getz, Eddie \"Lockjaw\" Davis, and Ahmad Jamal. Riley was also a member of the group Sphere, and during the 1970s and 1980s, he was a member of the New York Jazz Quartet."
tagline: "American drummer (1933–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ben_Riley.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: "1933-07-17"
deathDate: "2017-11-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.79
  momentum:             10.63463320463321
  historical:           12.13456266666667
  currentAttention:     17.84
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0726982/"
    handle:    "nm0726982"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "بين رايلي (عازف جاز)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ben Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Riley"
    title: "Ben Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Riley"
    title: "Ben Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Riley"
    title: "Ben Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Riley"
    title: "Ben Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Riley"
    title: "Ben Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ベン・ライリー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Riley"
    title: "Ben Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Riley"
    title: "Ben Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Riley"
    title: "Ben Riley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D1%96"
    title: "Бен Райлі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c0770b83-c97d-4cf7-a882-2cdec158b711"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q330336"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1846430"
    title: "Ben Riley"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump