Monty Alexander

Montgomery Bernard "Monty" Alexander OJ CD 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. Alexander also sings and plays the melodica. He is known for his surprising musical twists, bright rhythmic sense, and intense dramatic musical climaxes. His recording career has covered many of the well-known American songbook standards, jazz standards, pop hits, and Jamaican songs from his original homeland. Alexander has resided in New York City for many years and performs frequently throughout the world at jazz festivals and clubs.

6 June 1944

Born on the same birth date (6 June 1944): Phillip Allen Sharp • Tommie Smith

Born on the same birth day (6 June): Ada Kok • Andrea Cesalpino • Eliza Orzeszkowa • Frank Chee Willeto • Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin • Harvey Fierstein • Henry Allingham • Henry Newbolt • Jack Hetherington • Jon Henricks • Max August Zorn • Pape Souaré • Paul Giamatti • Sunil Dutt • Tony Levin • Tony Yeboah

Born in the same month (June 1944): Christine Beasley • Claude Humphrey • Gary Busey • Glenn Shorrock • Kathryn Lasky • Laurie Colwin • Ray Davies • Rick Price (bassist) • Robert D. Keppel • Robert Elliott (actor, born 1944) • Roger Ball (musician) • Sandy Posey • Seán Patrick O'Malley • Terry Funk • Tommie Smith • Wally Gabler • Ze'ev Friedman