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Monty Alexander

1944 - Today

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Montgomery Bernard "Monty" Alexander OJ CD (born 6 June 1944) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Monty Alexander has received more than 256,016 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Monty Alexander is the 1,269th most popular musician (up from 1,339th in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Jamaica (up from 37th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Jamaican Musician.

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  • 260k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Monty Alexander ranks 1,269 out of 2,662. Before him are Andrew Loog Oldham, Mark Isham, Imants Kalniņš, Luther Allison, Adrian Vandenberg, and Ray Parker Jr.. After him are Peter Tork, Randy Brecker, Jay Chou, Jo Jones, Leslie West, and Hariprasad Chaurasia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Monty Alexander ranks 415. Before him are Caleb Deschanel, Takeshi Ono, Patrick Devedjian, Joseph Benz, Said Musa, and Andrew Loog Oldham. After him are Nelson Prudêncio, Jean-François Stévenin, Jon Hiseman, Nancy Chodorow, James H. Clark, and Mary Wilson.

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In Jamaica

Among people born in Jamaica, Monty Alexander ranks 33 out of 168. Before him are Burning Spear (1945), Prince Buster (1938), Linford Christie (1960), Asafa Powell (1982), Patrick Allen (1951), and Leonard Howell (1898). After him are Raheem Sterling (1994), Portia Simpson-Miller (1945), King Tubby (1941), Don Quarrie (1951), Gregory Isaacs (1951), and Horace Andy (1951).

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Among MUSICIANS In Jamaica

Among musicians born in Jamaica, Monty Alexander ranks 8. Before him are Peter Tosh (1944), Lee "Scratch" Perry (1936), Desmond Dekker (1941), Sean Paul (1973), DJ Kool Herc (1955), and Prince Buster (1938). After him are King Tubby (1941), Horace Andy (1951), Ziggy Marley (1968), Damian Marley (1978), Augustus Pablo (1954), and John Holt (1947).

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