# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joe-marsala
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:42:15.220Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joe-marsala"
name: "Joe Marsala"
slug: "joe-marsala"
description: "Joseph Francis Marsala was an Italian-American jazz clarinetist, alto and tenor saxophonist, and songwriter, older brother of trumpeter Marty Marsala."
tagline: "Italian-American jazz clarinetist and songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Toots_Thielemans_and_Joe_Marsala.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: "1907-01-04"
deathDate: "1978-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.15
  momentum:             0.5454545454545453
  historical:           10.54222533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "جو مارسالا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Marsala"
    title: "Joe Marsala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Marsala"
    title: "Joe Marsala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Marsala"
    title: "Joe Marsala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Marsala"
    title: "Joe Marsala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Marsala"
    title: "Joe Marsala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Marsala"
    title: "Joe Marsala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Marsala"
    title: "Joe Marsala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Marsala"
    title: "Joe Marsala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Marsala"
    title: "Joe Marsala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "جو مارسالا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d98d8c1a-c433-4a1f-aef1-34d34748aa03"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1691519"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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