# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-dockery
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:02:49.293Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-dockery"
name: "Sam Dockery"
slug: "sam-dockery"
description: "Samuel Dockery, nicknamed Sure-Footed Sam, was a hard bop pianist and well-respected musician on the Philadelphia jazz scene since the early 1950s. Dockery was born in Camden, New Jersey. He appears on 11 recordings as the pianist for Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers and composed \"Sam's Tune\" which appears on their 1957 Blue Note recording Ritual. In 1963 he was the pianist for Betty Carter's extended engagement at Birdland, and headed The Sam Dockery Trio in Philadelphia during the 1990s. He also taught at Philadelphia's University of the Arts. He died in a nursing home in 2015, aged 86. His brother was bassist Wayne Dockery."
tagline: "American musician (1929-2015)"
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: "1929-09-08"
deathDate: "2015-12-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.34
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.537293333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/339952"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A"
    title: "سام دوكري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Dockery"
    title: "Sam Dockery"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Dockery"
    title: "Sam Dockery"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Dockery"
    title: "Sam Dockery"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Dockery"
    title: "Sam Dockery"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%89%E3%83%83%E3%82%B1%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC"
    title: "サム・ドッケリー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Dockery"
    title: "Sam Dockery"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Dockery"
    title: "Sam Dockery"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b42fb026-2f09-4af9-8efb-84483649935e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q787672"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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