# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-medeski
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:28:34.805Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-medeski"
name: "John Medeski"
slug: "john-medeski"
description: "Anthony John Medeski is an American jazz keyboard player and composer. Medeski is a veteran of New York's 1990s avant-garde jazz scene and is known popularly as a member of Medeski Martin & Wood. He plays the acoustic piano and an eclectic array of keyboards, including the Hammond B3 organ, melodica, mellotron, clavinet, ARP String Ensemble, Wurlitzer electric piano, Moog Voyager Synthesizer, Wurlitzer 7300 Combo Organ, Vox Continental Baroque organ, and Yamaha CS-1 Synthesizer, among others. When playing acoustic piano, Medeski usually plays the Steinway piano and is listed as a Steinway Artist."
tagline: "American jazz keyboards player and composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Medeski.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: "1965-06-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           10.80421733333333
  currentAttention:     5.720000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "medeskimusic"
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/johnmedeski/"
    handle:    "johnmedeski"
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    handle:    "johnmedeski"
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    handle:    "nm0575542"
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  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.johnmedeski.com/"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جون ميديسكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Medeski"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Medeski"
    title: "John Medeski"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Medeski"
    title: "John Medeski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Medeski"
    title: "John Medeski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Medeski"
    title: "John Medeski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Medeski"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump