# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ronald-shannon-jackson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:18:14.366Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ronald-shannon-jackson"
name: "Ronald Shannon Jackson"
slug: "ronald-shannon-jackson"
description: "Ronald Shannon Jackson was an American jazz drummer from Fort Worth, Texas. A pioneer of avant-garde jazz, free funk, and jazz fusion, he appeared on over 50 albums as a bandleader, sideman, arranger, and producer. Jackson and bassist Sirone are the only musicians to have performed and recorded with the three prime shapers of free jazz: pianist Cecil Taylor, and saxophonists Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler."
tagline: "American jazz drummer (1940–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ronald_Shannon_Jackson_06N5970.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: "1940-01-12"
deathDate: "2013-10-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.31
  momentum:             15.53156146179402
  historical:           11.634236
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Ronald Shannon Jackson"
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    title: "Ronald Shannon Jackson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump