# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cedar-walton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:14:06.880Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cedar-walton"
name: "Cedar Walton"
slug: "cedar-walton"
description: "Cedar Anthony Walton Jr. was an American hard bop jazz pianist. He came to prominence as a member of drummer Art Blakey's band, The Jazz Messengers, before establishing a long career as a bandleader and composer. Several of his compositions have become jazz standards, including \"Mosaic\", \"Bolivia\", \"Holy Land\", \"Mode for Joe\" and \"Ugetsu/Fantasy in D\"."
tagline: "American jazz pianist (1934–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cedar_Walton_Dachau_2001.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1934-01-17"
deathDate: "2013-08-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.074954877483851
  historical:           19.77149866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0910486/"
    handle:    "nm0910486"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump