# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-threadgill
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:07:12.608Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-threadgill"
name: "Henry Threadgill"
slug: "henry-threadgill"
description: "Henry Threadgill is an American composer, saxophonist and flautist. He came to prominence in the 1970s leading ensembles rooted in jazz but with unusual instrumentation and often incorporating other genres of music. He has performed and recorded with several ensembles: Air, Aggregation Orb, Make a Move, the seven-piece Henry Threadgill Sextett, the twenty-piece Society Situation Dance Band, Very Very Circus, X-75, and Zooid."
tagline: "American jazz musician (born 1944)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henry_Threadgill1.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: "1944-02-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.75
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.11371866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "هنرى ثرايدجيل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Threadgill"
    title: "Henry Threadgill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Threadgill"
    title: "Henry Threadgill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Threadgill"
    title: "Henry Threadgill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Threadgill"
    title: "Henry Threadgill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%AF%DA%AF%DB%8C%D9%84"
    title: "هنری تردگیل"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Threadgill"
    title: "Henry Threadgill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Threadgill"
    title: "Henry Threadgill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Threadgill"
    title: "Henry Threadgill"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Threadgill"
    title: "Henry Threadgill"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bf3f2266-33e7-42ae-a1f2-4066ded25dca"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q354158"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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