# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/freddie-redd
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:44:59.130Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/freddie-redd"
name: "Freddie Redd"
slug: "freddie-redd"
description: "Freddie Redd was an American hard-bop pianist and composer. He is best known for writing music to accompany The Connection (1959), a play by Jack Gelber. According to Peter Watrous, writing in The New York Times: \"Mr. Redd hung out at jam sessions in the 1950s and played with many of the major figures, Sonny Rollins to Art Blakey, and worked regularly with Charles Mingus. When things got tough, he just moved on, living in Guadalajara, Mexico, and in Paris and London.\""
tagline: "American jazz pianist (1928–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Freddie_Redd_2013.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: "1928-05-29"
deathDate: "2021-03-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.17
  momentum:             17.16243315508021
  historical:           9.892298666666669
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0714660/"
    handle:    "nm0714660"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "فريدى ريد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Redd"
    title: "Freddie Redd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Redd"
    title: "Freddie Redd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Redd"
    title: "Freddie Redd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Redd"
    title: "Freddie Redd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Redd"
    title: "Freddie Redd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Redd"
    title: "Freddie Redd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Redd"
    title: "Freddie Redd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Redd"
    title: "Freddie Redd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Redd"
    title: "Freddie Redd"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f30eb5d7-5513-495c-9ad6-9e81cac7bb1f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1452610"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump