# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tony-williams
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:41:23.709Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tony-williams"
name: "Tony Williams"
slug: "tony-williams"
description: "Anthony Tillmon Williams was an American jazz drummer. Williams first gained fame as a member of Miles Davis's \"Second Great Quintet\", and later pioneered jazz fusion with Davis's group and his own combo, The Tony Williams Lifetime. In 1970, music critic Robert Christgau described him as \"probably the best drummer in the world\". Williams was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame in 1997."
tagline: "American jazz drummer (1945–1997)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tony_Williams1.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: "1945-12-12"
deathDate: "1997-02-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.58
  momentum:             1.118573240802925
  historical:           22.00306666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump