# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-morello
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:41:31.728Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-morello"
name: "Joe Morello"
slug: "joe-morello"
description: "Joseph Albert Morello was an American jazz drummer best known for serving as the drummer for pianist Dave Brubeck, as part of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, from 1957 to 1972, including during the quartet's \"classic lineup\" from 1958 to 1968, which also included alto saxophonist Paul Desmond and bassist Eugene Wright. Morello's facility for playing unusual time signatures and rhythms enabled that group to record a series of albums that explored them. The most notable of these was the first in the series, the 1959 album Time Out, which contained the hit songs \"Take Five\" and \"Blue Rondo à la Turk\". In fact, \"Take Five\", the album's biggest hit was specifically written by Desmond as a way to showcase Morello's ability to play in 54 time."
tagline: "American jazz drummer (1928–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_Morello%2C_1962.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: "1928-07-17"
deathDate: "2011-03-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15.79231556212345
  historical:           17.87511733333334
  currentAttention:     8.68
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0603775/"
    handle:    "nm0603775"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.joemorello.net/"
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    title: "Joe Morello"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump