# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenny-burrell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:15:48.657Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenny-burrell"
name: "Kenny Burrell"
slug: "kenny-burrell"
description: "Kenneth Earl Burrell is an American jazz guitarist, singer and composer known for his work on numerous top jazz labels: Prestige, Blue Note, Verve, CTI, Muse, and Concord. His collaborations with Jimmy Smith were notable, and produced the 1965 Billboard Top Twenty hit Verve album Organ Grinder Swing. Burrell has cited jazz guitarists Charlie Christian, Oscar Moore, and Django Reinhardt as influences, along with blues guitarists T-Bone Walker and Muddy Waters."
tagline: "American jazz guitarist (born 1931)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kenny_Burrell_2.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: "1931-07-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.9556565532489867
  historical:           20.45441733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump