# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jeff-ballard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:27:18.522Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jeff-ballard"
name: "Jeff Ballard"
slug: "jeff-ballard"
description: "Jeff Ballard is an American jazz drummer. He has played with Ray Charles and Pat Metheny and played periodically with Chick Corea in many groups such as Origin and the Chick Corea New Trio. He also played with many New York–based jazz musicians such as Reid Anderson, Brad Mehldau, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Mark Turner, Miguel Zenon and Eli Degibri. He has also played with the Joshua Redman Elastic Band."
tagline: "American jazz drummer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jeff-ballard.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: "1963-09-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.31
  momentum:             14.5398773006135
  historical:           10.09323466666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jeffballard.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/304732"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%81_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "جيف بالارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Ballard"
    title: "Jeff Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Ballard"
    title: "Jeff Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Ballard_(musician)"
    title: "Jeff Ballard (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Ballard"
    title: "Jeff Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Ballard"
    title: "Jeff Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Ballard"
    title: "Jeff Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Ballard"
    title: "Jeff Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%95%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89"
    title: "ジェフ・バラード"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Ballard"
    title: "Jeff Ballard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3eec64cd-02d3-4bde-9837-0e1305517e3e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q629950"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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