# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/milt-buckner
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:55:38.061Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/milt-buckner"
name: "Milt Buckner"
slug: "milt-buckner"
description: "Milton Brent Buckner was an American jazz pianist and organist, who in the early 1950s popularized the Hammond organ. He pioneered the parallel chords style that influenced Red Garland, George Shearing, Bill Evans, and Oscar Peterson. Buckner's brother, Ted Buckner, was a jazz saxophonist."
tagline: "American jazz pianist and organist (1915–1977)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Milt_Buckner_1953.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: "1915-07-10"
deathDate: "1977-07-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.15100933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3665344/"
    handle:    "nm3665344"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/149051"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%83%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "ميلت بوكنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt_Buckner"
    title: "Milt Buckner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt_Buckner"
    title: "Milt Buckner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt_Buckner"
    title: "Milt Buckner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt_Buckner"
    title: "Milt Buckner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt_Buckner"
    title: "Milt Buckner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt_Buckner"
    title: "Milt Buckner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt_Buckner"
    title: "Milt Buckner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt_Buckner"
    title: "Milt Buckner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt_Buckner"
    title: "Milt Buckner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt_Buckner"
    title: "Milt Buckner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d8165438-12b3-4ba2-8f32-0f08a6670906"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1727308"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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