# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jimmy-knepper
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:19:41.354Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jimmy-knepper"
name: "Jimmy Knepper"
slug: "jimmy-knepper"
description: "James Minter Knepper was an American jazz trombonist. In addition to his own recordings as leader, Knepper performed and recorded with Charlie Barnet, Woody Herman, Claude Thornhill, Stan Kenton, Benny Goodman, Gil Evans, Thad Jones and Mel Lewis, Toshiko Akiyoshi and Lew Tabackin, and, most famously, Charles Mingus in the late-1950s and early-1960s."
tagline: "American jazz trombonist (1927–2003)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jimmy_Knepper.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: "1927-11-22"
deathDate: "2003-06-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.58
  momentum:             1.119324181626188
  historical:           11.437908
  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: "جيمى كنيبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Knepper"
    title: "Jimmy Knepper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Knepper"
    title: "Jimmy Knepper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Knepper"
    title: "Jimmy Knepper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Knepper"
    title: "Jimmy Knepper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Knepper"
    title: "Jimmy Knepper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Knepper"
    title: "Jimmy Knepper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Knepper"
    title: "Jimmy Knepper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Knepper"
    title: "Jimmy Knepper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Knepper"
    title: "Jimmy Knepper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8D%E3%83%83%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ジミー・ネッパー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Knepper"
    title: "Jimmy Knepper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4c43836c-a57c-4817-a6be-44f404507f2a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump