# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ed-bickert
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:05:15.032Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ed-bickert"
name: "Ed Bickert"
slug: "ed-bickert"
description: "Edward Isaac Bickert, was a Canadian guitarist who played mainstream jazz and swing music. Bickert worked professionally from the mid-1950s to 2000, mainly in the Toronto area. His international reputation grew steadily from the mid-1970s onward as he recorded albums both as a bandleader and as a backing musician for Paul Desmond, Rosemary Clooney, and other artists, with whom he toured in North America, Europe and Japan."
tagline: "Canadian musician (1932–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ed_Bickert_and_Fraser_MacPherson.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1932-11-29"
deathDate: "2019-02-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.710118666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1304218/"
    handle:    "nm1304218"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1077818"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA"
    title: "اد بيكيرت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bickert"
    title: "Ed Bickert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bickert"
    title: "Ed Bickert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bickert"
    title: "Ed Bickert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bickert"
    title: "Ed Bickert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bickert"
    title: "Ed Bickert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bickert"
    title: "Ed Bickert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bickert"
    title: "Ed Bickert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bickert"
    title: "Ed Bickert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Bickert"
    title: "Ed Bickert"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d7b3f76e-e591-4ffa-9484-0cd73906451d"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q486998"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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