# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jesper-thilo
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:00:54.452Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jesper-thilo"
name: "Jesper Thilo"
slug: "jesper-thilo"
description: "Jesper Thilo was a Danish jazz musician, mainly known as a tenor saxophonist, alto saxophonist, and clarinetist. He is considered to be one of the top European straight-ahead jazz musicians of the post-1970 period. Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins were early influences, while he later developed a highly personal sound reminiscent of Zoot Sims."
tagline: "Danish jazz musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jt_HG_jesper-thilo.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1941-11-28"
deathDate: "2026-04-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.89
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.609
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0858152/"
    handle:    "nm0858152"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/315701"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%B1_%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88"
    title: "جيسبر ثيلو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesper_Thilo"
    title: "Jesper Thilo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesper_Thilo"
    title: "Jesper Thilo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesper_Thilo"
    title: "Jesper Thilo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesper_Thilo"
    title: "Jesper Thilo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesper_Thilo"
    title: "Jesper Thilo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesper_Thilo"
    title: "Jesper Thilo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesper_Thilo"
    title: "Jesper Thilo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e365b1a5-ab1d-46d2-ba18-3c8c90300f4b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q486275"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1438144"
    title: "Jesper Thilo"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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