# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rodney-jones
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:34:30.137Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rodney-jones"
name: "Rodney Jones"
slug: "rodney-jones"
description: "Rodney Jones is an American jazz guitarist who worked with Jaki Byard, Chico Hamilton, Dizzy Gillespie, and Lena Horne and as a bandleader. He is cited as a jazz guitarist who uses modern quartal harmony. Jones is a faculty member at Juilliard."
tagline: "American jazz guitarist and bassist, born 30 August 1956 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA."
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rodney_Jones_(guitarist)-Buffalo-NY-1977.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: "1956-08-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.555221333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0429158/"
    handle:    "nm0429158"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.rodneyjones.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/96441"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%8A_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "رودني جونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%86%D9%89_%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "رودنى جونز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Jones"
    title: "Rodney Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Jones_(guitarist)"
    title: "Rodney Jones (guitarist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Jones"
    title: "Rodney Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%89%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BA"
    title: "ロドニー・ジョーンズ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Jones"
    title: "Rodney Jones"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/95242ba1-5e3a-4ffe-add7-da0c98fdd8d5"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1325743"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4407376"
    title: "Rodney Jones"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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