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Jesper Thilo
Jesper Thilo is credited on 390 releases across 78 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1962–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
390
Pressings credited
78
Albums
7
Decades active
8
In collections
Biography
Jesper Thilo (28 November 1941 – 25 April 2026) 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. Thilo first recorded as a leader for Storyville Records in 1973 and in the 1980s on Storyville his sidemen at various times included Kenny Drew, Clark Terry, and Harry "Sweets" Edison. In the 1980s, he also played in the Ernie Wilkins's Almost Big Band. Thilo also appears on the Miles Davis album Aura recorded in 1985. In 1991, he worked with Hank Jones in a quintet.
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Credited work
390 releases · 78 albums · active 1962–2025
- Performance · 573
- Other credits · 165
- Production · 15
- Engineering · 10
- Mastering · 1
Studios: Easy Sound Studio · Metronome Studio, Copenhagen · Wifos Studio · Rosenberg Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Ben Webster
- Cæsar
- Jesper Thilo Quartet
- Kansas City Stompers
- Jesper Thilo Quintet
- Ernie Wilkins Almost Big Band
- Bent Fabricius-Bjerre
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