# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cleveland-eaton
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:45:10.540Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/cleveland-eaton"
name: "Cleveland Eaton"
slug: "cleveland-eaton"
description: "Cleveland Josephus Eaton II was an American jazz double bassist, producer, arranger, composer, publisher, and head of his own record company in Fairfield, Alabama, south of Mobile. His most famous accomplishments were playing with the Ramsey Lewis Trio and the Count Basie Orchestra. His 1975 recording Plenty Good Eaton is considered a classic in the funk music genre. He was inducted into both the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame and the Alabama Music Hall of Fame."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cleveland_Eaton.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: "1939-08-31"
deathDate: "2020-07-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.09
  momentum:             2.094455852156057
  historical:           10.75453733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "کلیفلاند ایتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Eaton"
    title: "Cleveland Eaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Eaton"
    title: "Cleveland Eaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Eaton"
    title: "Cleveland Eaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Eaton"
    title: "Cleveland Eaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Eaton"
    title: "Cleveland Eaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Eaton"
    title: "Cleveland Eaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Eaton"
    title: "Cleveland Eaton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Eaton"
    title: "Cleveland Eaton"
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  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Eaton"
    title: "Cleveland Eaton"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f2676d44-f03b-4cee-9c15-e8f3736da64a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump