# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/monty-alexander
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:48:51.986Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/monty-alexander"
name: "Monty Alexander"
slug: "monty-alexander"
description: "Montgomery Bernard \"Monty\" Alexander OJ CD is a Jamaican American jazz pianist. His playing has a Caribbean influence and bright swinging feeling, with a strong vocabulary of bebop jazz and blues rooted melodies. He was influenced by Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Erroll Garner, Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal, Les McCann, and Frank Sinatra. Alexander also sings and plays the melodica. He is known for his surprising musical twists, bright rhythmic sense, and intense dramatic musical climaxes. His recording career has covered many of the well-known American songbook standards, jazz standards, pop hits, and Jamaican songs from his original homeland. Alexander has resided in New York City for many years and performs frequently throughout the world at jazz festivals and clubs."
tagline: "Jamaican pianist (born 1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Monty_Alexander.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: "1944-06-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           18.04363733333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0018639/"
    handle:    "nm0018639"
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    handle:    "30V1rKijENF5MFcGidInfh"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.montyalexander.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump